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Damiano GerliHow it started (May 25). How it's going (five days later).
This is blowing up. Well, I dunno, you should follow me if you like gaming history, weird trivia and posts about Italy?
Do people still do this?
I dunno, it's my first day.
Also fu#k AI
Simone Milesi@damianogerli all of this reminds me about Paranoia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paranoia_(role-playing_game).
"Are you happy, Citizen?"
"Are you happy, Citizen?"
@simone_milesi wondering how much the C64 game had to do with it (probably not a whole lot)
@damianogerli from what i read, it's an unlincesed game based on the RPG, but, from a quick look to the gameplay videos, it's totally different from the p&p game.
The RPG is a mocking of '80s fear for nuclear war and all the '80s topos, totally ironical and satyrical.
The RPG is a mocking of '80s fear for nuclear war and all the '80s topos, totally ironical and satyrical.
@simone_milesi Paranoia Complex on the c64 was one of my favs but I could never understand anything of what was going on and also had this strange tendency of creating a fake Amiga crash which is one of the strangest things I've seen on C64
Full Metal Archaeopteryx@damianogerli how did they not see that coming?
slimehunter@DelilahTech @damianogerli blinded by greed
Eva Chanda
BJ Kennedy@echanda @slimehunter @DelilahTech @damianogerli
Entirely possible that they might have been in dire straights, deep in the red to the point where they couldn't have continued paying their staff anyway, and tried something that didn't work out in order to attempt to continue the service.
Not saying this is the case, but these types of viral schadenfreude-porn stories have a tendency of having more details come out weeks later that make it make a lot more sense.
@arcdrag @echanda @DelilahTech @damianogerli Could be. Headlines often don't tell the whole story. I was also in a business that was a sinking ship going without pay for weeks on end so I can relate. We were told to tough it out. The investors pulled all funding spitefully because they thought we weren't working hard enough and weren't giving enough return on their investments so we needed more motivation. If it's paying fair wages that stops business there's probably something else wrong.
regphunt@DelilahTech @damianogerli AI would have seen it.
Steve Popovich@regphunt Stevie Wonder could have seen that coming.
Richard Troupe@damianogerli It was obviously going to happen. 😅
Aaron@damianogerli Everybody is so eager to jump on the hype bandwagon. And in the process real harm is being done to consumers, businesses, and innocent bystanders.
Seth Goldstein@damianogerli It's... not... right... to.... laugh... but... so hard not to.
That's a shame. Really is. They should get their employees back.
Steve Karsch 🤘🏻
@seth @damianogerli …and double their pay.
Jeremy Kahnand recognize their union
Jeffrey Schrab@damianogerli I have a feeling there’s going to be a lot of stories that read like this in the not too distant future.
Gabriele Svelto [moved]@damianogerli should we be doing an "AI is going just great" website like @molly0xfff did for "Web3"?
alternative_be✅🖖🏻@damianogerli I can’t fathom this. So a helpline actually fires real people, offering real help and replaces them with an ff-ing chatbot? Sorry for the strong language, but this reminds me a former colleague who vented in the early nineties that things would get so bad at social services that clients would have to insert their electronic ID into an ATM machine and the machine would subsequently decide whether they would qualify for benefits or not. We were social workers and live in Belgium, Europe. I am retired now and often wonder whether it will come to that. Although social worker is still a protected title in my country and you have to have at least a bachelor’s degree to be a social worker, #socalWork is not what it used to be. Generally, I have the impression that people are being educated well before entering our field, but once there, there is only so much they can or are allowed to do. Moreover, we experience a shortage of social workers.
Glyph@alternative_be @damianogerli FWIW a simple mechanical ID check would be a huge *upgrade* over the kafkaesque nightmare that we have for benefits in the US. A patchwork network of shitty AIs are already deciding whether you live or die, but you have to fill out a ton of different forms every month for the privilege https://www.pbs.org/newshour/amp/economy/column-how-algorithms-to-root-out-welfare-fraud-often-punish-the-poor
@glyph @damianogerli Wow! That’s atrocious, to say the least. Over here, people on benefits still have social workers so people can be counselled when/ if needed. Only the counselling part gets less and less attention because of new rules, a more controlling nature of the job (which puts people off when they need to be able to talk freely) and a shortage in staff. So to put things mildly, I don’t like the way we are heading.
Miguel Aguayo@damianogerli
That was fast
That was fast
@damianogerli @Gargron including the timestamps really helps drive it home:
How it started: May 25, 2023, 9:52am
How it’s going: May 30, 2023, 2:42pm
Adam R. Wood@damianogerli That was even faster than even I predicted.
living edge case
peter@damianogerli would love to see the FMEA they surely did before releasing safety critical software in the health sector
uzayran@damianogerli
Looks like we're sharing a brain cell 😄
https://cyberplace.social/@uzayran/110462707594533145
Looks like we're sharing a brain cell 😄
https://cyberplace.social/@uzayran/110462707594533145
Ryan Ford@damianogerli @Meyerweb “Maybe you shouldn't eat so much, fatty." - Tessa, probably
Rufus T Firefly@RTFirefly @damianogerli @Meyerweb In all seriousness, I've tried seeing if ChatGPT can outline a good training and eating regimen, and it fails in many subtle ways that a lay user wouldn't catch. It's surprisingly, mind-bogglingly foolish and irresponsible to rely on current AI tooling to provide sensitive, accurate guidance for ANY medical or health-related need.
JWSGeek (Moving: Universeodon)@damianogerli I'm pretty sure at some point, a visitor was asked if they turned their food off and on again.
Fluffgar 🏴 HAS MOVED@damianogerli It is, unfortunately, at the stage where I'm even questioning whether these headlines are "A.I." generated.
I mean a true A.I. would probably care about making itself look bad but what we actually have are at first glance plausible text generators.
Agora@damianogerli 🤣🤣😩😩🤦🏾♀️🤦🏾♀️🤦🏾♀️
Trojan Duck@damianogerli They will not rehire the staff they fired no matter what happens.
@todwest "computer says no" (who knew that quote would come back this way huh)
Liam @ GamingOnLinux 🐧🎮@damianogerli a chatbot is stupid what a fucking surprise eh
Brian Higgins@damianogerli That ‘helpline’s Board needs to be replaced.
xs4me2@damianogerli What could possibly go wrong?
Rodrigo Mesa@damianogerli Classic FAFO.
ˈdälfən™🐬 💥 🌊@damianogerli Scary stuff.
The Warbo@damianogerli It's so weird to see people insist to me I should be worried about "soon a chatbot will be able to do your job" when overwhelming evidence is that i should worry about "soon some grifters will convince my boss that a chatbot can do my job"
@TheWarbo it is always the human element we should look out for
WoodswalkedThe chat bot can be horrible, providing only scant and episodic BAD service to be considered a cost reduction.
cc: @damianogerli
Ravynn@damianogerli Just. God. Damn.
The Actual Brian🙄
Yeah, you can replace human compassion and a real connection with some prewritten text and a bot.
Sure, people may die, but the profit margins will cover any potential lawsuits.
WaterluvianI just typed in so many not nice things about whoever thought this was a good idea. None of them were appropriate.
I’m settling for yelling at my screen.
@damianogerli it’s cruel, but I really hope some decision maker lost their job over this debacle.
Mercurius Goldstein@damianogerli
Prediction: Every manager responsible for this decision will keep their job and continue to fail upwards.
Prediction: Every manager responsible for this decision will keep their job and continue to fail upwards.
Deus Ex MacGuffin 
Did....did they honestly expect a chatbot would work? Like....are there managers who watch the ChatGPT episode of South Park, don't realize it's satire, and think "Yep, this plan is flawless. Just fire everyone and turn the chatbot on tomorrow. I'm going out for a 3 martini lunch."
I'm sorry, but how dumb do you have to be to think this would result in anything other than a disaster?
@DXMacGuffin pretty much "manager/CEO dumb" would be enough
kikebenlloch@damianogerli No one saw that coming! 😅
Charles Herold@damianogerli 'NEDA’s initial response to Maxwell was to accuse her of lying. “This is a flat out lie,” NEDA’s Communications and Marketing Vice President Sarah Chase commented on Maxwell’s post and deleted her comments after Maxwell sent screenshots to her, according to Daily Dot. A day later, NEDA posted its notice explaining that Tessa was taken offline due to giving harmful responses.'
Olle Gladsø@damianogerli Effing idiots.
The FrogWell, we all thought the danger with AI would be that they'd perform better than humans and take our jobs.
But the real danger seems that they perform way, way worse but STILL take our jobs.