Baldur Bjarnason on Nostr: Only just now realising that the wish fulfilment of having a dedicated slave or ...
Only just now realising that the wish fulfilment of having a dedicated slave or polite servant might play a bigger role in the popularity of chatbots than I expected
I can be slow sometimes, but I also always thought the constant signals of servility these systems are made to exude were obviously distasteful, even when experienced second-hand through other people's reports
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