is "promptfondlers" racist against chatbots?

[davidgerard@circumstances.run]

is "promptfondlers" racist against chatbots?

[dvandal@infosec.exchange]

@dysfun @davidgerard it isnt racist at all 😡

[davidgerard@circumstances.run]

@dysfun but what if linear algebra had feelings, what then

[dysfun@social.treehouse.systems]

@dvandal @davidgerard https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarcasm

[dysfun@social.treehouse.systems]

@davidgerard what if linear algebra users had feelings?

they don't, so it's all academic.

[jmax@mastodon.social]

@davidgerard Chatbots are not people. It is therefore logically impossible to be racist towards them.

[davidgerard@circumstances.run]

@jmax if only the existence of racism towards linear algebra were an imaginary position and not one I see espoused here on this fine fedi by people who i have otherwise understood to be sensible

[jmax@mastodon.social]

@davidgerard It's a straightforward extension of the basic delusion that an LLM is a person.

[tubemeister@mstdn.social]

@davidgerard For one, “promptfondlers” isn’t aimed at the bot.

“Ole flat thumbs” isn’t racist at hammers either.

[dzwiedziu@mastodon.social]

@davidgerard
I think not, utill one overuses them and you start to wonder is there a reason for that.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nBtbkOfUlIo

[8r3n7@mstdn.ca]

@davidgerard Animism. Old human habit, to project human feelings onto things that have some features that appear coincidentally human. Many humans are not very smart! We are easily confused by our intutions, which lie to us constantly. But many people cannot tell the difference.

[jplebreton@mastodon.social]

@jmax @davidgerard ~$ echo "I'm alive"
"I'm alive"
😱😭🤯 etc

[davidgerard@circumstances.run]

@dzwiedziu i have heard "wireback" in two sorts of places:

(a) comic writer sex pest Warren Ellis, who coined it;
(b) AI apologists claiming it's a standard word in anti-robot racism.

I have literally never encountered it in the wild. So I treat "what about wireback" as: this person is full of shit.

In my experience, 100% of claims of racism against robots are from AI shills.

And quite a lot of those are AI doomsday cultists i.e. rationalists, who are largely race scientists. i.e., much more concerned about alleged racism against linear algebra than they are about racism against actual humans.

It's the thing where fascists try using social justice words.

I see this over and over.