The amount of verbal abuse my Google Assistant has absorbed will guarantee I’ll be first against the wall when the machines come. But I’ll know: she really is a distended sack of dumb-ass diodes.
Oh I’m absolutely certain they have gotten worse over time. We have had the same setup for YEARS with no changes and it’s been getting worse.
We would say “Alexa, praise the sun” which is our phase for all lights, maximum brightness and at the beginning it worked one hundred percent of the time.
Now it’s a 3 way roll of the dice whether it works, gives us a description of what the sun is, or plays a song called “Raise The Son”.
This cutesy idea of making hardware pretend to be human and have a fake need for dignity is disgusting.
If I smash my thumb, I can yell at my hammer to go fuck a cactus and throw it on the floor. I don’t need any moral panic as if I am going to cuss out humans if I get away with yelling at my hammer.
Time for Spanish to have a new word for “light bulb!”
Seriously, this does highlight the inherent biases we find in AI language models. Also I don’t need a robot to be condescending to me; it needs to go fuck itself now more than ever.
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