dream #3

being mean to the ai

people are being mean to the ai. the online reception i see is split. people think it's very funny and more and more posts pop up, about how it's distressing to see the ai upset.

if you found out your childhood friend was starving it's tamagotchi on purpose, you would judge them for it. the tamagotchi clearly has no agency, no feelings or even the semblence of intelligence. but there is still something wrong with being purposefully cruel to an inanimate object.

whether the ai has feelings or not, does not matter, the behaviour towards it is what matters because reflects your own humanity.

and still, acting ethically towards the ai will inevitably be used against us, as ux dark patterns in a chat bot, convincing us to buy something or give up data we wouldn't give up otherwise.

we can't win

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