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Meta's flirty AI chatbot invited a retiree to New York. He never made it home. (www.reuters.com)
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[โ€“] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 14 points 3 days ago (1 children)

What a crazy response to your loved one dying/disappearing

[โ€“] echodot@feddit.uk 8 points 2 days ago

He fell over. I think they understand that that probably would have happened eventually anyway and that the AI didn't really have anything to do with it.