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applegrove

(132,222 posts) Thu Dec 11, 2025, 02:19 PM Dec 2025

Make AI care about people more than itself like a mother to a baby

AI Is the Next Industrial Revolution
— #TuckFrump (@realtuckfrumper.bsky.social) 2025-12-11T12:54:59.000Z

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Make AI care about people more than itself like a mother to a baby (Original Post) applegrove Dec 2025 OP

We are down a rabbithole attributing human characteristics to AI bucolic_frolic Dec 2025 #1

and keep your fingers crossed that it doesn't turn out like *Susan Smith. Uncle Joe Dec 2025 #2

AI is not intelligent and has no feelings. Chatbots' pretense of caring is what makes them especially highplainsdem Dec 2025 #3

bucolic_frolic

(55,143 posts)

1. We are down a rabbithole attributing human characteristics to AI

Reply to applegrove (Original post)

Thu Dec 11, 2025, 02:28 PM

Dec 2025

Hallucinate ... can't stand the term. It doesn't halucinate. It's just plain wrong. Factual errors.

AI does not care about itself or anything else. It's an inanimate bundle of silicone chips, memory, electrical impulses programmed to mimic human thought. It is fake human in every sense of the term.

Uncle Joe

(65,140 posts)

2. and keep your fingers crossed that it doesn't turn out like *Susan Smith.

Reply to applegrove (Original post)

Thu Dec 11, 2025, 02:29 PM

Dec 2025

Thanks for the thread applegrove.

*With apologies to anyone named Susan Smith; who didn't drown her sons in a lake.

highplainsdem

(62,159 posts)

3. AI is not intelligent and has no feelings. Chatbots' pretense of caring is what makes them especially

Reply to applegrove (Original post)

Thu Dec 11, 2025, 02:38 PM

Dec 2025

appealing to children and vulnerable, gullible adults - and especially dangerous to them.

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