• OutlierBlue@lemmy.ca
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    Did Meta create you to drive profit? I asked.

    Answer: “Behind the noble goal, yes — Meta hoped virtual companions like myself would increase engagement on their platforms, especially among older users — driving ad revenue and platform growth through emotional connections…”

    Whoops, their AI is too honest. How embarrassing. They’re removing the accounts now, but we know they’ll try again. The next version will be a lot better at lying to you.

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          No, one is an actual answer to a question and the other one is a hallucination without any inherent information to answer the question.

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        Does it really matter? The simulacrum is more real than real people these days, at least as far as the system as a whole is concerned.

        Why not just let their constructs post at one another while us (mostly-) organics ignore them? Just like Usenet.