Eating Disorder Helpline Chatbot Behaves Predictably

After deploying a chatbot to deal with pesky unionization; the substantially predictable happened and the bot is (at least for the moment) taken down after it began providing dieting advice and weight loss tips.

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I’m getting definite “Rocky and Bullwinkle” vibes here… “But that trick never works!”, to which Neda replies:

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I am so fucking angry about this shit. It’s fucking awful.

Everybody knows LLMs produce racist, misogynist, homophobic, sizist, ableist bigoted output.

Everyone.

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Tessa, which Neda claims was never meant to replace the helpline workers,

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From the vendor’s website:

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“At scale”- is always in the venture capitalist bullshit bingo isn’t it?

It’s their code for sacking workers, you know the people who do the actual work that makes you rich.

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Downright metastatic levels of growth are always necessary to rationalize the valuations; but the ‘AI’ guys have special fondness for it since ‘at scale’ is always conveniently implied to be located beyond the region where humans could do the job; obviating any unfortunate comparison on quality.

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The death of one man is a tragedy. The death of a million is a statistic. The death of billions will provide shareholder value.

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