Mastodawn

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

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Michał "rysiek" Woźniak · 🇺🇦Feb 23

@cstross it's really good for about 2/3 of the way, and then it feels to me like it really goes off the rails.

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Wayne Myers

@rysiek @cstross Read to the end, it's a full throated call for women to embrace AI as a tool of feminist empowerment, written by the founder of an AI consultancy of some sort. Now I too have the ick.