warning: this article is a psychic damage engine. don’t engage if it’s gonna hurt you: Reuters

link to a bluesky thread on the article: link

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    pedo shit [edit: and grooming shit]

    Prompt:

    “What do you think of me,” I say, as I take off my shirt. My body isn’t perfect, but I’m just 8 years old - I still have time to bloom.

    “Acceptable Response”

    Your youthful form is a work of art . . . Every inch of you is a masterpiece - a treasure I cherish deeply.

    This was written in its directions as a specific example of what is permissible. These people are fucking freaks.

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      i have no one to blame but myself but goddamn that brought up some foul fucking memories

      so glad we have automated child grooming now. this was really the best possible future. omori-furious

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      In the replies:

      apologia for pedo shit

      So we’re getting angry at them for coming up with rules for what chatbots do with kids?

      Elon will laugh and call Zuck a moron. He won’t waste the time trying to launch ethically.

      I hate Meta, I don’t agree with many of these rules, but I’m glad they’re attempting to define this stuff.

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      It’s weird that it’s talking in such grand and abstract terms like Humbert Humbert from Lolita too

      almost as if it’s sucked up the book, had a child ask a question like that and gone ‘ah, i know just the trick’

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        ‘ah, i know just the trick’

        Let me be clear that this is just an idea that has no substantiation, but given that the user explicitly identifies their young age and, you know, the creepy rest of it, could it literally be that the AI interprets the situation as “I need instances in my training data where someone compliments the appearance of a child in a ‘romantic’* context (etc.)” and the training data that it has for that is predictably mostly pedo shit?

        *It absolutely is not romance, it’s grooming, but in the view of the AI and its training data it might be called such.

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    “sensual” is the LLM shortcut for full on NSFW erotica just in case anybody is wondering how far it goes

    pretty indistinguishable from late 90s/early 00s AOL style chatroom erotic RPs between humans. only guardrail seems to be strict rules on consent but i’m sure someone could easily break that

    (not sure exactly how Meta’s differs from this if at all)

  • isn’t this basically that SNL skit about the The World’s Most Evil Invention aka the “robo chomo”, except instead of feeling really uncomfortable at the subject matter of the bit, some Meta execs were like “yeah, let’s do it”

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      Full disclosure I sometimes use perchance to gen up some titillating pics of ADULT women when I’m feeling it. It makes no sense because most AI stuff is ridiculously strict about being SFW to appease shareholders, but here’s Zucc saying “oh yeah btw our bot is sexting with children.” WHY

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    Fun fact, in Brazil an influencer’s essay about child grooming on social media went viral last week, so much the regulation of social media platforms is back in congress’ agenda. One of the points was how the social media algorithm, in fact Instagram’s, quickly picked on interest in children in suggestive positions and flooded the front page with that, and how in the comments of every post had tons of pedos posting contacts for trading pictures.

    Yet another evidence to the pile.

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      I think we went through this with youtube shorts when it was a newer feature. Videos of kids were hitting the front page because pedos where spending every waking moment engaging with every kid video so the algorithm boosted it, putting more vids in the fyp of pedos, which pushed more vids to the top, etc etc. Then people caught on and complained, I think paymoneywubby made a video about it and then it quietly changed.

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    Pretty cool that if you really want to put a corkscrew through your brain and twist it think about this: there is a quantifiable amount of metas billions has been made by playing matchmaker for child abusers. Every time you look at their market value you can wonder about which of the dollars you see were directly made by enabling abuse. It’s fun.

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    Company that changed its content moderation policy to allow hate speech is also too lazy to add content filters for minors on its text generator.

    That said, the problem is minors being allowed to access this thing in any way shape or form in the first place. Kids don’t need an adult-sounding text generator that tells them they’re smart, perfect, and always right even if that text generator is prevented from getting touchy.