Ronald SnijderMar 15
Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ

taking direct psychic damage from this...

Margaret Atwood

noooo

https://margaretatwood.substack.com/p/claude-you-are-a-cutie-pie

Claude, you are a cutie-pie!

And an outrageous flirt. How I ended up showing off to a seductive and possibly psychopathic AI.

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Show threadVacuolicMar 15
@olivia oof ow
Show threadAnthonyMar 15
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At my wit’s end, I turned to Claude, the AI advisor. I was well-disposed towards him, or it, since a friend preferred it to other AIs, and also since Anthropic, its creator, had turned down a demand that he, or it, be used to spy on everybody.
Oh no. Dear God.

Show threadAllie!Mar 15
@olivia I like her conclusion a lot.
Show threadKraftwerk-Das Model CollapseMar 15
@dotsie I don't, LLMs should not be anthromorphosized
Show threadAllie!Mar 15

@dngrs interesting!

I don’t think she is doing that at all and that it’s kind of the point of the piece.

Wild how different interpretations can be.

Show threadKate NyhanMar 15

@olivia
MA: "I was well-disposed towards him, or it, since a friend preferred it to other AIs, and also since Anthropic, its creator, had turned down a demand that he, or it, be used to spy on everybody."

WSJ: "U.S. Strikes in Middle East Use Anthropic, Hours After Trump Ban"

Why is Anthropic getting this free pass? "Trump said he doesn't like them" and you believe other things that Trump says?

Show threadKate NyhanMar 15
@olivia
BTW - why do I have that WSJ article handy in my Zotero? Because last week I looked it up to share with a collaborator who used Claude (without discussing it beforehand, ooof) for a task in a scoping review we are working on.
Show threadxinniwMar 15
@olivia ooof
Show threadJoris MeysMar 15
@olivia
Ouch. Very uncomfortable to read, I even started skipping parts because the cringe was too much to bear.
Show threadOlivia Guest · Ολίβια ΓκεστMar 15
@JorisMeys same same
Show threadizzy | Technically Good ✨Mar 15
@olivia oh good lord that was..... something. I will leave it at that.
Show threadBrennan Kenneth BrownMar 15

@olivia wow, terrible news. awful news.

here's some more reading on Atwood to ruin your day: https://www.fridaythings.com/recent-posts/margaret-atwood-rosie-dimanno-terf-definition

I Truly Could Not Be More Over Margaret Atwood | Friday Things

It’s not surprising that the literary icon is amplifying TERF-adjacent opinions—or doubling down when criticized. To understand why, we just have to look at her past behaviour.

Friday Things
Show threadOlivia Guest · Ολίβια ΓκεστMar 15
@brennan nooo ok binned
Show threadChaddicusMar 16
@olivia to me this reads as satire, but maybe I'm giving her too much credit. And I skimmed it because holy wordy so 🤷
Show threadOlivia Guest · Ολίβια ΓκεστMar 16
@wombatpandaa consider the two statements you wrote and it's already weird satire or terrible satire just from that
Show threadChaddicusMar 16
@olivia lol fair enough!