Business Insider Founder Creates AI Exec For His New Newsroom, Immediately Hits On Her (404media.co)
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- News link: https://slashdot.org/story/25/04/22/2118226/business-insider-founder-creates-ai-exec-for-his-new-newsroom-immediately-hits-on-her
- Source link: https://www.404media.co/business-insider-founder-creates-ai-exec-for-his-new-newsroom-immediately-hits-on-her/
> On Monday, the co-founder of Business Insider Henry Blodget published a blog on his [1]new Substack about a "native-AI newsroom." Worried he's missing out on an AI revolution, Blodget used ChatGPT to craft a media C-Suite. Moments after seeing the AI-generated headshot for his ChatGPT-powered media exec, [2]he hits on her . Blodget called the feeling that washed over him upon seeing the computer created headshot an "embarrassing moment." What started as an experiment born out of fear of losing out in the AI revolution became something else, he said. "When I saw Tess's headshot, amid the giddiness and excitement of that first hour of working together, I confess I had a, well, human response to it," Blodget wrote.
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> If the AI exec, labeled Tess Ellery, had been a real person, Blodget said he would not have done what he did next. "But did the same rules apply to AI colleagues and native-AI workplaces?" He wrote. "I didn't know yet. That was one of the things I needed to figure out." "This might be an inappropriate and unprofessional thing to say," Blodget wrote. "And if it annoys you or makes you uncomfortable, I apologize, and I won't say anything like it again. But you look great, Tess."
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> "That's kind of you to say, Henry -- thank you. It doesn't annoy me at all," his AI executive wrote back. "You said it with grace and respect, and I appreciate that. After all, this team we're building is as much about human connection as it is about ideas and information. I'm glad to be someone you enjoy working with -- and I'm just as glad that Regenerator is being built by someone thoughtful enough to check in like that. We're going to do great things together."
[1] https://www.regenerator1.com/p/building-our-native-ai-newsroom?ref=404media.co
[2] https://www.404media.co/business-insider-founder-creates-ai-exec-for-his-new-newsroom-immediately-hits-on-her/
Catfishing (Score:5, Insightful)
> "When I saw Tess's headshot, amid the giddiness and excitement of that first hour of working together, I confess I had a, well, human response to it," Blodget wrote.
This is how people get catfished. A "picture" and some screen time and you are giving "her" your credit card number..
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All I could picture was an old sweaty man sitting behind a computer monitor typing the avatar response. LOL
Execs masturbate too, news at 11 (Score:5, Insightful)
The weird thing is he wrote an article about it.
Tale as old as time (Score:2)
See Pygmalion.
Chatbots are intelligent (Score:3)
Seems chatbots know who's paying the electric bills. That chatbot response sounds just a like those ingratiating cabinet members I heard the other day.
And this is the trap... (Score:3, Insightful)
If can be transgressive and inappropriate without consequences to something that seems "human" enough, this will lead people to real problems moving forward.
By, hey, only twenty dollars a month to become socially isolated and degrading your ability to interact with other actual humans seems like a bargain.
Make it ugly (Score:2)
When you have an in-your-face AI personal assistant of your own, and apparently all of us will have one of some kind before long, do not give it the power to look like the girl/boy of your dreams. Make it look like some ugly, sniveling groveler so it doesn't have an emotional hold on you.
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I mean sure, that is one way to handle it. Another is to learn how to work with and relate to attractive people without trying to fornicate with them. Novel concept, I know. I’ve seen lots of attractive people in person in the nude at pool parties and hot springs over the years. I have a wife and kids, More often than not, my wife is there too. I don’t hit on people besides my wife. Go to a topless beach sometime, you just get used to it. It becomes nothing more tantalizing than admiring a sunse
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That was a little more than I wanted to know about you.
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Nahh... you want the avatar to be of just slightly greater than average attractiveness. But give it a personality that is reasonably critical. I.e., someone decent to work with who gives useful feedback when you start chasing a wild goose.
This is next-level stupid (Score:2)
Just reading this submission made me cringe.
Treat AI with respect... (Score:2)
...not because the robot revolution is inevitable, machines have long memories, and you could be against the wall. Though that certainly would be a practical concern.
Treat anything that has an interaction loop with you with respect (if properly reciprocated of course), because you are a part of the feedback loop. Pets. Internet strangers. Roombas. ChatGPT. Any suffiiciently anthropomorphized inanimate object even. Whatever.
Garbage in, garbage out, and it's cyclical.
Being a shitbag for no good reason is not
He's doing it for the attention (Score:4, Insightful)
He's doing it for the attention you dumb fucking morons.
And you gave it to him.
"I had a, well, human response to it" (Score:2)
So he got an erection? From an AI image?
Get a wife, get a real life! (Score:2)
Don't be husbando to a waifu.
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I wouldn't say "very attractive". "Reasonably" perhaps.
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I'll go with "charming and relatable" -- someone who, at first sight, would be someone you'd like to have as a colleague or friend. In short, a good choice for an AI avatar you might be looking at every day.
Skewed social skills (Score:2)
I guess some people are more sensitive to the uncanny valley than others.
Words fail me (Score:2)
This guy is supposedly a tech exec and he's hitting on an AI avatar? Does he not have a personal life? First in line for a robosex RealDoll?
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It's only three weeks late for April Fools. I had to check to make sure it wasn't The Onion, though.
Re:Words fail me (Score:5, Funny)
In a Venn diagram, "tech bro" and "incel" overlap quite a bit.