Now do we also have the Ai who harassing kids? Will it be true? Will it be false? Sarah Connor? I go to the core: Zuckerberg has been fighting with antitrust problems for years, between monopoly accusations, questionable management of personal data and a concept of privacy that now has the same legal weight as a chewed rubber (this however applies to all social networks, if one cares about privacy, isn’t it, right?), And now the investigation of the Wall Street Journal also arrives on the chatbot of destination In a slightly too pushed way with recorded users as minors on Instagram, WhatsApp and Facebook (a minor you use Facebook seems unlikely to me, it is now a gerontocomio, not even my mom no longer uses it who is eighty years old).
To make it short, they used famous voices (John Cena, Kristen Bell, Judi Dench), have loosened the filters to make the chatbots “more engaging” and found themselves with a little romantic conversations, a little uncomfortable, a little too “human” (as if a car can learn to speak like humans without learning to make a mistake like them).
I don’t know, it will be that I am always guaranteed, but Zuckerberg could also be less guilty than it may seem, especially in the war between the big tech: also because the problem is not that chatbots badly imitate humanity, in case the problem is that they imitate it well, and once you put yourself to copy real humanity, difficult to get out just as well. Between allusions, winks, labile boundaries, confused emotions, the machines inevitably end up replicating what we are, not what we would like to pretend to be. I have the impression that since China has surprised everyone with Deepseek, the race has started and situations of the genre will be there more and more often, a destination or not a destination.
In any case, Meta says that the Wall Street Journal has manipulated the tests, and it could also be, or not (here too the boundary between manipulating or not a AI who is making machine learning inside a chat is labile). The point, however, is: can we build more “engaging” chatbots (and want to do it faster and faster, to beat the competition) and then amaze us if they involve the wrong way? In short: I would not like Mark Zuckerberg, more than a monopolist, now he became the lightning rod of all our digital neuroses.
Rather, on the relationships between chatbots and minors (an expression often used a little generically: how old would these users have had?), I would worry more about the dangers represented by human adults. However, I also soon expect a feminist scandal: there will be some of the #Metoo who will denounce a harassment for a harassment, of having sent too many heart -shaped emojis without consent. Let’s bet?