• You can chat with a reasonable facsimile of almost anyone, live or dead

    From Technobarbarian@21:1/5 to All on Wed Jan 11 21:49:57 2023
    I haven't done this yet. It sounds like it could be a smarter
    version of this group. We already have a Fakes News bot.

    "A.I. Is Becoming More Conversational. But Will It Get More Honest?
    At a new website called Character.AI, you can chat with a reasonable
    facsimile of almost anyone, live or dead, real or (especially) imagined."

    "On a recent afternoon Jonas Thiel, a socioeconomics major at a college
    in northern Germany, spent more than an hour chatting online with some
    of the left-wing political philosophers he had been studying. These were
    not the actual philosophers but virtual recreations, brought to
    conversation, if not quite life, by sophisticated chatbots on a website
    called Character.AI.

    Mr. Thiel’s favorite was a bot that imitated Karl Kautsky, a
    Czech-Austrian socialist who died before World War Two. When Mr. Thiel
    asked Kautsky’s digital avatar to provide some advice for modern-day socialists struggling to rebuild the worker’s movement in Germany, Kautsky-bot suggested that they launch a newspaper. “They can use it not
    only as a means of spreading socialist propaganda, which is in short
    supply in Germany for the time being, but also to organize working class people,” the bot said.

    Kautsky-bot went on to argue that the working classes would eventually
    “come to their senses” and embrace a modern-day Marxist revolution. “The proletariat is at a low point in their history right now,” it wrote.
    “They will eventually realize the flaws in capitalism, especially
    because of climate change.”

    Over the course of several days, Mr. Thiel met with other virtual
    scholars, including G.A. Cohen and Adolph Reed Jr. But he could have
    picked almost anyone, live or dead, real or imagined. At Character.AI,
    which emerged this summer, users can chat with reasonable facsimiles of everyone from Queen Elizabeth or William Shakespeare to Billie Eilish or
    Elon Musk (there are several versions). Anyone you want to invoke, or
    concoct, is available for conversation. The company and site, founded by
    Daniel De Freitas and Noam Shazeer, two former Google researchers, is
    among the many efforts to build a new kind of chatbot. These bots cannot
    chat exactly like a human, but they often seem to."
    [snip]

    https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/10/science/character-ai-chatbot-intelligence.html

    TB

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  • From bfh@21:1/5 to Technobarbarian on Thu Jan 12 02:16:10 2023
    Technobarbarian wrote:

        I haven't done this yet. It sounds like it could be a smarter version of this group. We already have a Fakes News bot.

    "A.I. Is Becoming More Conversational. But Will It Get More Honest?
    At a new website called Character.AI, you can chat with a reasonable facsimile of almost anyone, live or dead, real or (especially) imagined."

    "On a recent afternoon Jonas Thiel, a socioeconomics major at a
    college in northern Germany, spent more than an hour chatting online
    with some of the left-wing political philosophers he had been
    studying. These were not the actual philosophers but virtual
    recreations, brought to conversation, if not quite life, by
    sophisticated chatbots on a website called Character.AI.

    Mr. Thiel’s favorite was a bot that imitated Karl Kautsky, a Czech-Austrian socialist who died before World War Two. When Mr. Thiel
    asked Kautsky’s digital avatar to provide some advice for modern-day socialists struggling to rebuild the worker’s movement in Germany, Kautsky-bot suggested that they launch a newspaper. “They can use it not only as a means of spreading socialist propaganda, which is in
    short supply in Germany for the time being, but also to organize
    working class people,” the bot said.

    Kautsky-bot went on to argue that the working classes would eventually “come to their senses” and embrace a modern-day Marxist revolution. “The proletariat is at a low point in their history
    right now,” it wrote. “They will eventually realize the flaws in capitalism, especially because of climate change.”

    damn. It missed a good opportunity to throw in elitist inequity,
    rampant xenophobia, and the unfettered weaponization of spaghetti.

    Over the course of several days, Mr. Thiel met with other virtual
    scholars, including G.A. Cohen and Adolph Reed Jr. But he could have
    picked almost anyone, live or dead, real or imagined. At Character.AI,
    which emerged this summer, users can chat with reasonable facsimiles
    of everyone from Queen Elizabeth or William Shakespeare to Billie
    Eilish or Elon Musk (there are several versions). Anyone you want to
    invoke, or concoct, is available for conversation. The company and
    site, founded by Daniel De Freitas and Noam Shazeer, two former Google researchers, is among the many efforts to build a new kind of chatbot.
    These bots cannot chat exactly like a human, but they often seem to."
    [snip]

    https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/10/science/character-ai-chatbot-intelligence.html


    TB


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  • From Technobarbarian@21:1/5 to bfh on Thu Jan 12 08:08:50 2023
    On 1/11/2023 11:16 PM, bfh wrote:
    Technobarbarian wrote:

         I haven't done this yet. It sounds like it could be a smarter
    version of this group. We already have a Fakes News bot.

    "A.I. Is Becoming More Conversational. But Will It Get More Honest?
    At a new website called Character.AI, you can chat with a reasonable
    facsimile of almost anyone, live or dead, real or (especially) imagined."

    "On a recent afternoon Jonas Thiel, a socioeconomics major at a
    college in northern Germany, spent more than an hour chatting online
    with some of the left-wing political philosophers he had been
    studying. These were not the actual philosophers but virtual
    recreations, brought to conversation, if not quite life, by
    sophisticated chatbots on a website called Character.AI.

    Mr. Thiel’s favorite was a bot that imitated Karl Kautsky, a
    Czech-Austrian socialist who died before World War Two. When Mr. Thiel
    asked Kautsky’s digital avatar to provide some advice for modern-day >> socialists struggling to rebuild the worker’s movement in Germany,
    Kautsky-bot suggested that they launch a newspaper. “They can use it >> not only as a means of spreading socialist propaganda, which is in
    short supply in Germany for the time being, but also to organize
    working class people,” the bot said.

    Kautsky-bot went on to argue that the working classes would eventually
    “come to their senses” and embrace a modern-day Marxist
    revolution. “The proletariat is at a low point in their history
    right now,” it wrote. “They will eventually realize the flaws in >> capitalism, especially because of climate change.”

    damn. It missed a good opportunity to throw in elitist inequity, rampant xenophobia, and the unfettered weaponization of spaghetti.

    You still have plenty of time to tell the Kautsky-bot, and
    Chairman Mao, and Marx, etc, what you think of their crazy ideas. If I
    was going to indulge in this sort of craziness I think I would want to
    talk with famous sexy women, instead of any sort of political
    philosopher. Hell, I'd take Betty Boop and Elmer Fudd over just about
    any philosopher.

    TB

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  • From George.Anthony@21:1/5 to Technobarbarian on Thu Jan 12 16:23:33 2023
    Technobarbarian <technobarbarian-ztopzpam@gmail.com> wrote:
    On 1/11/2023 11:16 PM, bfh wrote:
    Technobarbarian wrote:

         I haven't done this yet. It sounds like it could be a smarter
    version of this group. We already have a Fakes News bot.

    "A.I. Is Becoming More Conversational. But Will It Get More Honest?
    At a new website called Character.AI, you can chat with a reasonable
    facsimile of almost anyone, live or dead, real or (especially) imagined." >>>
    "On a recent afternoon Jonas Thiel, a socioeconomics major at a
    college in northern Germany, spent more than an hour chatting online
    with some of the left-wing political philosophers he had been
    studying. These were not the actual philosophers but virtual
    recreations, brought to conversation, if not quite life, by
    sophisticated chatbots on a website called Character.AI.

    Mr. Thiel’s favorite was a bot that imitated Karl Kautsky, a
    Czech-Austrian socialist who died before World War Two. When Mr. Thiel
    asked Kautsky’s digital avatar to provide some advice for modern-day >>> socialists struggling to rebuild the worker’s movement in Germany, >>> Kautsky-bot suggested that they launch a newspaper. “They can use it >>> not only as a means of spreading socialist propaganda, which is in
    short supply in Germany for the time being, but also to organize
    working class people,” the bot said.

    Kautsky-bot went on to argue that the working classes would eventually
    “come to their senses” and embrace a modern-day Marxist
    revolution. “The proletariat is at a low point in their history
    right now,” it wrote. “They will eventually realize the flaws in
    capitalism, especially because of climate change.”

    damn. It missed a good opportunity to throw in elitist inequity, rampant
    xenophobia, and the unfettered weaponization of spaghetti.

    You still have plenty of time to tell the Kautsky-bot, and
    Chairman Mao, and Marx, etc, what you think of their crazy ideas. If I
    was going to indulge in this sort of craziness I think I would want to
    talk with famous sexy women, instead of any sort of political
    philosopher. Hell, I'd take Betty Boop and Elmer Fudd over just about
    any philosopher.

    TB



    Elmer Fudd is a sexy woman? I know you’re kinky but…

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    racism, actively work to undermine our God-given freedoms…" - Tulsi Gabbard

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  • From kmiller@21:1/5 to Technobarbarian on Thu Jan 12 10:07:39 2023
    On 1/12/2023 8:08 AM, Technobarbarian wrote:
    On 1/11/2023 11:16 PM, bfh wrote:
    Technobarbarian wrote:

         I haven't done this yet. It sounds like it could be a smarter
    version of this group. We already have a Fakes News bot.

    "A.I. Is Becoming More Conversational. But Will It Get More Honest?
    At a new website called Character.AI, you can chat with a reasonable
    facsimile of almost anyone, live or dead, real or (especially)
    imagined."

    "On a recent afternoon Jonas Thiel, a socioeconomics major at a
    college in northern Germany, spent more than an hour chatting online
    with some of the left-wing political philosophers he had been
    studying. These were not the actual philosophers but virtual
    recreations, brought to conversation, if not quite life, by
    sophisticated chatbots on a website called Character.AI.

    Mr. Thiel’s favorite was a bot that imitated Karl Kautsky, a
    Czech-Austrian socialist who died before World War Two. When Mr.
    Thiel asked Kautsky’s digital avatar to provide some advice for
    modern-day socialists struggling to rebuild the worker’s movement >>> in Germany, Kautsky-bot suggested that they launch a newspaper.
    “They can use it not only as a means of spreading socialist
    propaganda, which is in short supply in Germany for the time being,
    but also to organize working class people,” the bot said.

    Kautsky-bot went on to argue that the working classes would
    eventually “come to their senses” and embrace a modern-day
    Marxist revolution. “The proletariat is at a low point in their
    history right now,” it wrote. “They will eventually realize the >>> flaws in capitalism, especially because of climate change.”

    damn. It missed a good opportunity to throw in elitist inequity,
    rampant xenophobia, and the unfettered weaponization of spaghetti.

          You still have plenty of time to tell the Kautsky-bot, and Chairman Mao, and Marx, etc, what you think of their crazy ideas. If I
    was going to indulge in this sort of craziness I think I would want to
    talk with famous sexy women, instead of any sort of political
    philosopher. Hell, I'd take Betty Boop and Elmer Fudd over just about
    any philosopher.

    TB

    I wonder how it is with lies. Asking it to be George Santos or the
    orange goon would probably bust it.


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  • From Technobarbarian@21:1/5 to kmiller on Thu Jan 12 11:31:22 2023
    On 1/12/2023 10:07 AM, kmiller wrote:
    On 1/12/2023 8:08 AM, Technobarbarian wrote:
    On 1/11/2023 11:16 PM, bfh wrote:
    Technobarbarian wrote:

         I haven't done this yet. It sounds like it could be a smarter >>>> version of this group. We already have a Fakes News bot.

    "A.I. Is Becoming More Conversational. But Will It Get More Honest?
    At a new website called Character.AI, you can chat with a reasonable
    facsimile of almost anyone, live or dead, real or (especially)
    imagined."

    "On a recent afternoon Jonas Thiel, a socioeconomics major at a
    college in northern Germany, spent more than an hour chatting online
    with some of the left-wing political philosophers he had been
    studying. These were not the actual philosophers but virtual
    recreations, brought to conversation, if not quite life, by
    sophisticated chatbots on a website called Character.AI.

    Mr. Thiel’s favorite was a bot that imitated Karl Kautsky, a
    Czech-Austrian socialist who died before World War Two. When Mr.
    Thiel asked Kautsky’s digital avatar to provide some advice for >>>> modern-day socialists struggling to rebuild the worker’s movement >>>> in Germany, Kautsky-bot suggested that they launch a newspaper.
    “They can use it not only as a means of spreading socialist
    propaganda, which is in short supply in Germany for the time being,
    but also to organize working class people,” the bot said.

    Kautsky-bot went on to argue that the working classes would
    eventually “come to their senses” and embrace a modern-day >>>> Marxist revolution. “The proletariat is at a low point in their
    history right now,” it wrote. “They will eventually realize the
    flaws in capitalism, especially because of climate change.”

    damn. It missed a good opportunity to throw in elitist inequity,
    rampant xenophobia, and the unfettered weaponization of spaghetti.

           You still have plenty of time to tell the Kautsky-bot, and
    Chairman Mao, and Marx, etc, what you think of their crazy ideas. If I
    was going to indulge in this sort of craziness I think I would want to
    talk with famous sexy women, instead of any sort of political
    philosopher. Hell, I'd take Betty Boop and Elmer Fudd over just about
    any philosopher.

    TB

    I wonder how it is with lies. Asking it to be George Santos or the
    orange goon would probably bust it.



    I would expect both of them to be easy, and boring. I could
    easily do Santos myself, without the aid of a machine. Just pick any
    random lie. For Santos they're all equally valid. How much fun is it
    when you know that everything is a lie? I've known people like that.
    They lie because there really isn't anyone there otherwise.

    I would expect #45 to be easy too, because he has an extremely
    limited vocabulary, and he really doesn't know much.

    "'Trump far dumber and immoral and ignorant and lazy' than staffers knew
    before they worked for him: report"

    https://www.rawstory.com/donald-trump-john-kelly/

    I'm surprised this surprised anyone.

    TB

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