AI chatbots are intruding into online communities where people are trying to connect with other humans
theconversation.com
People participate in online communities to share experiences and sympathy. AI chatbots that join the conversation can only pretend to offer either.

there are some remarkable instances of bad behaviour in there already, but imagine being the sort of product team that thinks users being gaslit by a chatbot that they couldn’t even consent to choose to use is totes something to deliver without any modification or remark

  • blakestacey@awful.systemsEnglish
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    7 months ago

    According to a Meta help page, Meta AI will respond to a post in a group if someone explicitly tags it or if someone “asks a question in a post and no one responds within an hour.”

    God forbid it ever take longer than an hour for an actual human with actual knowledge to type a reply.