Charlie StrossFeb 23

Why agentic AI creeps out women: because it's written by bros for bros who want Stepford Wives, and conveys that vibe: commercial AIs are fine-tuned to perform as cheerfully submissive handmaids, not working partners:

https://abiawomosu.substack.com/p/they-built-stepford-ai-and-called

(via https://awful.systems/comment/10543801)

They Built Stepford AI and Called It “Agentic”

Women’s “ick” for AI isn’t technophobia or a gap to close. It’s wisdom to act on.

How Not To Use AI
Show threadMedea Vanamonde 🏳️‍⚧️Feb 23

@cstross for femme presenting AI i’d want Ross from Night Court, or Floe or Selma:

Otherwise it would be Burroughs or Hunter S. Thompson AI for that Dixie Flatline Feel, with a high preference for Hunter

Show threadCharlie StrossFeb 23
@MedeaVanamonde Spider Jerusalem or go home!
Show threadMedea Vanamonde 🏳️‍⚧️
@cstross
Hunter’s disembodied voice “Good god man! Don’t you realize there’s a chip shortage on? We can’t stop here, it’s Malware Country”
Feb 23 at 3:28pmWeb
Show threadCharlie StrossFeb 23
@MedeaVanamonde Meanwhile Spider Jerusalem injects a speedball straight into his eye socket then dials his bowel disrupter to "Prolapse" smiles like a skull, and prepares to conduct another adversarial interview—
Show threadMedea Vanamonde 🏳️‍⚧️Feb 23

@cstross

I had my Hunter iconography amped by Colonel Hunter Gathers on the Venture Brothers…a cartoon i binge watch when Psyche and Pneuma have been injured.