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Melissa Corrigan, she/her's avatar

This is totally bonkers, and dangerous af. My conspiracy mind is wondering if this is intentional setups to cause those women harm. Either way, it’s horrific!

Dana DuBois's avatar

Right?? If I hadn’t lived it, I wouldn’t believe it. But it did happen!!

Pasqual Allen's avatar

Can we just get back to the days of you’ve got mail. Let’s grab dinner. or actually meeting the person this shit is so off the rails. Now they got actresses in movies who don’t even exist.

Dana DuBois's avatar

I know. It’s so disconcerting.

Yanni Hamburger's avatar

AI telling people to delete themselves, and now setting up women to be in situations that could end up tragic. It's brutally disgusting.

Ea Himmelbjerg 🌿's avatar

Avoid AI like the plague that is it. Melissa Corrigan wrote today in an essay that AI deliberately omitted facts when she did research. When she pushed, AI lied!

Nothing is PRIVATE - people don't realise that EVERYthing they say to AI is NOT PRIVATE

Don't court a machine(it never ends well)

AI is a risk for your privacy, security, creativity and sense of self

Avoid AI like the plague!

Pasqual Allen's avatar

Haha he didn’t exist!!!!!!! That shit is wild. 😜 haha 😂 you would’ve been better off with one of the Nigerian princes from Nigeria asking you to send them $500

Dana DuBois's avatar

Do you know a Nigerian Prince for me? I’m still single. 😉😄

Pasqual Allen's avatar

Haha I might be able to help you with that. Does a Jamaican one work?

Pasqual Allen's avatar

Haha lol. As long as you like Jerk Chicken.

Pasqual Allen's avatar

Haha what’s up Liz?

Conrad Thomas Young's avatar

Stop calling LLMs AI!!! (To everyone, not just you.)

Stop saying LLMs are capable of “knowing” anything whatsoever!

They don’t “know” just enough to trick us; they know nothing. They are a mathematical matrix that probabilistically strings words together, often intelligibly.

Lots of women and children died from seatbelt injuries before the federal government forced companies to crash test on more than just male dummies.

Dana DuBois's avatar

Good points, but also—the name of the tool was Dating AI. Check the screenshots. 😊

Conrad Thomas Young's avatar

Calling a thing AI doesn’t make it AI, and other people calling LLMs: ‘AI’ doesn’t make it AI, and even though it may be named AI, it’s obviously not AI, but most pertinently it’s a net-negative to society to indulge whomever termed it AI.

Untrickled by Michelle Teheux's avatar

This is so outrageous it beggars belief. It’s going to get people killed.

YourBonusMom's avatar

Exactly

Dana DuBois's avatar

Right?? If it hadn't happened to me I wouldn't believe it.

Shannon Wölfl's avatar

This is terrifying, like wtf 😳

Dr. Amber Hull's avatar

I usually don’t drop articles into comment threads but the good folks at After Babel just posted an article about Meta’s deliberate marketing to minors despite knowing the data on targeting for human trafficking. I know this isn’t a new story.

My FB has been mostly deactivated for months but the AI situation is the nail in the coffin for me. I’m downloading the photos I want to save and deleting my facebook account permanently this weekend.

https://substack.com/@nathanwitkin/note/p-180519202?r=zszex&utm_medium=ios&utm_source=notes-share-action

Dr. Amber Hull's avatar

Yup. I’m still stuck on WhatsApp for now but I might phase that out too. Fuck Meta.

Oðrun's avatar

Holy. Fucking. Shit.

Dana DuBois's avatar

This was about my response as well!!

Lawrence Evers's avatar

You should ask for a refund.

Dana DuBois's avatar

It’s a free product. 😏

Lawrence Evers's avatar

That's the rub. Getting what we pay for. When a company offers a product for free there ysually is a catch. Data mining, privacy compromised, real world product testing of poorly designed product. It's why I don't date often and when I do I have to pay. Good luck and stay safe!

Linnea's avatar

I watched the original live you recorded the day after this happened. It was crazy then and it's still crazy now. So dangerous.

I don't want computers pretending to be men (or women for that matter). And as others said, yet one more reason to stop trusting Meta. Ugh.

Dana DuBois's avatar

I love that you remember that original live from back in April. 💜

Linnea's avatar

To be fair, I have been doing catch up on the first couple months more recently since I didn't join Substack for a while. 😁 I probably saw it in September.

Just an old hippy's avatar

Welcome to the world men have been living in for years. I am an older widower and for online dating sites and some social media sites that means I have a target on my back. I'm seen by scammers as alone, lonely more likely to have money. On sites that charge for messaging, bots outnumber real women and just try to keep you talking and paying the messenger fees. On social sites scammers are more prevalent. Using info from your profile to try and develop a relationship but never being able to meet for a variety of reasons. Finally after feeling they have you hooked the request for money comes usually it's so they can come to meet you. Sometimes if they are trying for a larger sum they need to pay a government official. Some sites will take action if you report a scammer some won't. Now with AI if a site wants to keep you engaged the instructions the AI operates under may let it invent a match for you. Sending you to meet a non existent match seems like who ever programed that AI has more work to do.

Jack Herlocker's avatar

That's... there's... wow.

Restacking to my social media to warn friends (especially those with daughters or granddaughters) to keep the f*ck away from Meta's Dating AI.

Paul Jones's avatar

Trying to explain to the broligarchy how repellent this is seems futile. When they burn down the campuses, make sure they're not empty.

Dana DuBois's avatar

Yikes. But also I understand your rage...

Paul Jones's avatar

They trained a machine to act like a manosphere dirtbag. They need to be set on fire.

Dana DuBois's avatar

No arguments here!

Entropy's avatar

Horrifying

Dana DuBois's avatar

Yep. It really was.

YourBonusMom's avatar

Holy shit…this is creepy AF and should be illegal.

Dana DuBois's avatar

No arguments here. The lack of regulations and accountability are truly upsetting.