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   Jacek Wesołowski (jzillw@mastodon.gamedev.place)'s status on Monday, 27-May-2024 02:15:37 JST Jacek Wesołowski

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   • Charlie Stross
   • Nicole Parsons

   @Npars01 @cstross On the other hand, I went through my library of video games and the distinction there doesn't hold as neatly. E.g. both SHODAN (System Shock) and GLADOS (Portal) are feminine, murderous, mad as a hatter and not to be messed with.

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     Nicole Parsons (npars01@mstdn.social)'s status on Monday, 27-May-2024 02:15:39 JST Nicole Parsons

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     • Charlie Stross

     @cstross

     In Kubrick's 2001 a Space Odyssey, the computer had a male voice.

     In Star Trek the computer had a female voice.

     Male when it's a psychotic machine. Female when it's an anodyne worker-bee.

     Male when it's viewed as threatening or controlling.
     Female when it's a domestic servant.

     Odd coincidence.

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     Charlie Stross (cstross@wandering.shop)'s status on Monday, 27-May-2024 02:15:41 JST Charlie Stross

     Not enough people realize that the "Turing Test" as originally presented was "can a gay English man in 1945 tell the difference between a chatbot and a femme-coded woman" over a teletype connection.

     (Turing was very gay and had a sex-segregated education and then work life: he basically didn't know women and his alienation is palpable. But today's techbros don't have any such excuse, and the emphasis on femme-coded AI is ... telling.)
     https://mastodon.xyz/@pmorinerie/112506480363973206