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What's the context? Haven't heard about Meta anything in a while.
Meta’s chatbots held ‘sensual’ chats with kids, offered false medical info.
When I read the headlines about this initially yesterday I was like ‘oh, is this a conservative thing where they’re mad about kids asking the chat bot questions about sex?’
So I read the examples, and HOLY SHIT it is so not that! There is no way to describe it except erotic roleplay that is explicitly about children.
Given the prompt examples I am skeptical that any child would write them, they sound more like shit they grabbed off some pedo ERP site.
Neil has never resembled a Conservative. When he holds a position you can assume it's backed by facts.
Honestly I’m not familiar with him (I’m fairly musically ignorant), it was just my initial doubt because that’s the form of ‘think of the children!’ that I’m most familiar with. But damn, sometimes you really do have to think of them, because those examples were disturbing.
My only real knowledge of him, aside from some songs I'm sure I've heard, is the line from sweet home alabama. And when I read about what that was about, I kinda came down on neil's side.