• nyan@lemmy.cafe
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    12 hours ago

    The result would have been the same if there had been a human behind the catfishing instead of an LLM, and events could have played out in a similar fashion if they’d been snail mail pen pals. The outcome of this story is tragic, but it doesn’t have much to do with technology when you stop and think about it for a moment.

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      6 hours ago

      My dude. Robots just conned a man. As you pointed out, that was previously only possible through engagement with actual humans.

      Seeing as how just a dozen people on Fox News successfully conned the US into Fascism, it’s not comforting to know that can now be more easily accomplished through robots.