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   Lauren Weinstein (lauren@mastodon.laurenweinstein.org)'s status on Friday, 01-Aug-2025 00:49:25 JST Lauren Weinstein

   The HAL 9000 from "2001" may have been a paranoid murdering AI, but at least he wasn't a moron AI like what Big Tech foists on us today.

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     Rich Felker (dalias@hachyderm.io)'s status on Friday, 01-Aug-2025 00:49:23 JST Rich Felker

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     @lauren There has to be something to be said about how the techbro cult deemed the kind of regurgitory bullshit they're calling "AI" to be "more human" than a voice demonstrating reasoning processes but in a "robotic" tone/pacing.

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     Rich Felker (dalias@hachyderm.io)'s status on Friday, 01-Aug-2025 00:49:53 JST Rich Felker

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     @lauren It's almost like their definition of "human" is "mediocre neurotypical"...

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     Rich Felker (dalias@hachyderm.io)'s status on Friday, 01-Aug-2025 01:14:54 JST Rich Felker

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     @lauren It does to me, but the choice of of the word "robotic" isn't important. The idea is that it isn't copying non-phonemic linguistic patterns that sound like they're conveying emotions or the speaker's attitude towards a topic, but which are instead just copied as a pattern.

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     Lauren Weinstein (lauren@mastodon.laurenweinstein.org)'s status on Friday, 01-Aug-2025 01:14:55 JST Lauren Weinstein

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     • Rich Felker

     @dalias HAL wasn't robotic sounding, more like aristocratic.