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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.

[–] 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.

[–] 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)

[–] AZX3RIC@lemmy.world 10 points 1 month ago

You can't tell me what to do, Craig.

[–] paraphrand@lemmy.world 7 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Gooners don’t use Apple products anyway. Right? Right?

[–] teft@piefed.social 5 points 1 month ago

I give it 1 month before some gooner breaks the safety rails and has his relationship with Siri.

Never underestimate a horny techy.

[–] rangber@lemmy.zip 4 points 1 month ago

Siri is good girl with standard, so you have to work for it. Hot?

[–] fubarx@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

Been six days since the new Siri announcement. Still on the waiting list. Will reserve judgment until we actually get access.

[–] oh_@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

First thing I do today when I get a new Apple product is turn off Siri. I am sure this will be no different

[–] Null@retrolemmy.com 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Doesn’t mean people won’t try. And remember there are all kinds of friends.

[–] panda_abyss@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Sorry what does maple syrup have to do with this?

[–] Mister_Hangman@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

Look, we don’t have to call it boyfriend or girlfriend… but if I can cum down your throat at least once a week and you can peg me until I’m purple in the face I’ll be fine with whatever.

[–] SW42@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I would rather they had a Switch to Turn off anything AI

[–] Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works 0 points 1 month ago

I don't care, I'm not ever going to use Siri.

These AI slop bots are not going to be improved by removing the ass kissing function.