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Spez (Reddit CEO) just put out an announcement talking about how they'll verify bots vs humans. Get ready for a wave of new users into the Fediverse pretty soon! (www.reddit.com)

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[–] vivalapivo@lemmy.today 1 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

The whole text sounds racist AF

[–] Crackhappy@lemmy.world 7 points 14 hours ago (2 children)

Can you explain? I read it and didn't see anything racist.

[–] jj4211@lemmy.world 3 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago) (1 children)

I find it interesting that, as you point out, his comment makes zero sense but still gets upvotes, and then as he clarifies he's saying it's racist against chatbots, then people are unambiguously "oh hell no"

Some people upvote at a baseless accusation of racism without actually actually seeing racism or getting clarification that they may have missed... That's a bit sad...

[–] Crackhappy@lemmy.world 1 points 3 minutes ago

I'm definitely also guilty of sometimes just voting in reaction to a comment without actually reading what they're commenting on.

[+] vivalapivo@lemmy.today -11 points 13 hours ago (2 children)

Like fuck AI, but the general vibe is that bots are anthropomorphic and we should exclude them by the same reasons we previously were excluding black folks.

[–] jj4211@lemmy.world 11 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

LLMs are not people, they do not possess will, they do not possess sapience. Not wanting to deal with LLM output is in no way like excluding a group of people based on arbitrary characteristics.

[–] BrickEater@lemmy.world 9 points 13 hours ago (2 children)

The general vibe is that LLMs are glorified magic 8 balls that tell you what you want to hear. Honestly I'd rather listen to a magic 8 ball over an AI because it'll actually disagree with you.

You cant be racist towards an object or a piece of tech BECAUSE THEY ARENT SENTIENT NOR ARE THEY A RACE.

[–] Trainguyrom@reddthat.com 1 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

I think the point they're trying to make is that racism is a state of mind, and opening oneself up to being racist against a non-human or imaginary thing can open the floodgates to more "real" forms of racism against fellow humans.

Basically the difference between anthropomorphizing bots while one expresses their dislike for interacting with them vs. expressing one's dislike of being forced to interact with a machine that is made to feel like interacting with a person but isn't.

I'm not sure how I feel about this sentiment I've described, but it's one I'm open to arguments on since as a white dude I come into it with a mountain of privilege that likely blinds my view of things

[–] BrickEater@lemmy.world 1 points 1 hour ago

I fully understand the slippery slope argument being made here, but it entirely relies on someone not being able to diffentiate between a non sentient machine and a human. Which yes might be an issue if someone isn't smart/ cognizant enough to tell the difference. But at the end of the day yes as a human I am inherently better and worth more than ANY clanker. And I will continue to hold that belief until it can be proven without a reasonable doubt that one of those metal monsters are sentient. And anyone unable to grasp that point IMO is too afraid of Rokos Basilisk to be considered sane. And I will stand by that statement any day of the goddamn week.