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Who does your assistant serve?

ChatGPT and its consequences have been a disaster for the human race.

Replika was created out of bereavement after a close loved one died and the combination of a trove of saved text messages and advanced machine learning let the founder experience some of the essence of their friend's presence after they were gone in the form of an app. Going into this, I really wished that I would find something that's worth objecting against, some solid reason to want to decry this as a unobjectionably harmful action, but after having dug through it all I am left with is this overwhelming sense of compassion for them because the stories of hurt are so familiar to how things were in some of the darkest points of my life. Generative AI allows you to mass scan over all of the conversations to get the gist of what's going on in there and then use that to help you figure out what topics are being discussed without breaching confidentiality or exposing employees to the contents of the chat threads.

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