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Apple's Craig Federighi: Siri Won't Be Your AI Girlfriend (www.macrumors.com)
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[–] kobra@lemmy.zip 17 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Not directly related to the girlfriend aspect but his quote about sycophancy with AI is good to hear:

Quite the opposite, because as you may know, if you use many of the existing chatbots, they're really focused on engagement to a large degree. And sycophancy, right? They kind of want to pull you in. They might encourage you to reveal things about yourself, and then use that as a basis to establish a connection. We view it quite the opposite. I mean, the way that we have designed Siri, Siri really wants to say 'Listen, that's not what I'm here for, right? I'm here to help you. I can help you get things done. I can help you learn about the world.' But if you try to engage Siri as a romantic partner, Siri's not up for that. Siri's 100 percent not into that.

[–] ParadoxSeahorse@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

So much of our energy is now spent fighting engagement bait, the constant assault is exhausting (apologies for baiting an interaction)

[–] CosmoNova@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

I worry users might say Siri is rude compared to other chat bots and they‘ll tweak it to be more manipulative.