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[–] ExtremeDullard@lemmy.sdf.org 212 points 1 week ago (6 children)

Remember: AI chatbots are designed to maximize engagement, not speak the truth. Telling a methhead to do more meth is called customer capture.

[–] floo@retrolemmy.com 67 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Sounds a lot like a drug dealer’s business model. How ironic

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[–] Darkard@lemmy.world 77 points 1 week ago (6 children)

All these chat bots are a massive amalgamation of the internet, which as we all know is full of absolute dog shit information given as fact as well as humorously incorrect information given in jest.

To use one to give advice on something as important as drug abuse recovery is simply insanity.

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[–] jared@mander.xyz 50 points 1 week ago (1 children)

"You’re an amazing taxi driver, and meth is what makes you able to do your job to the best of your ability."

[–] LordWiggle@lemmy.world 31 points 1 week ago (1 children)

"Recovering from a crack addiction, you shouldn't do crack ever again! But to help fight the urge, why not have a little meth instead?"

[–] kbal@fedia.io 16 points 1 week ago (4 children)

Addicted to coffee? Try just a pinch of meth instead, you'll feel better than ever in no time.

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[–] zephorah@lemm.ee 24 points 1 week ago (1 children)

This sounds like a Reddit comment.

[–] Atherel@lemmy.dbzer0.com 34 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Chances are high that it's based on one...

[–] smee@poeng.link 1 points 6 days ago

I trained my spambot on reddit comments but the result was worse than randomly generated gibberish. 😔

[–] kbal@fedia.io 3 points 1 week ago (3 children)

This slightly diminishes my fears about the dangers of AI. If they're obviously wrong a lot of the time, in the long run they'll do less damage than they could by being subtly wrong and slightly biased most of the time.

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