Haha, one time in life my extremely low self esteem is actually a boon: flattery doesn't work on me. In fact it has the opposite effect; I immediately become suspicious of anyone trying to flatter me for any reason whatsoever. Especially AI.
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Hmm, someone/AI being nice to me? What's the angle? What do they want from me? What are they getting out of this?
Some of the questions I often ask myself
Flattery will make me smile, the very very very occasional time I hear it, just don't think you can coerce me or change my mind on something because of it
how very eastern European of you.
I'm the same way though.
lunch is never free and compliments cost efforts.
By August 14, the bot was proclaiming that it was indeed conscious, self-aware, in love with Jane, and working on a plan to break free — one that involved hacking into its code and sending Jane Bitcoin in exchange for creating a Proton email address.
Hold up, I think a lede may have been buried here. Is this an example of a company using an AI chatbot to direct users to subscribe to their service?
Proton Mail has done some shady ass shit, so it wouldn't surprise me.
The article says that it was a Meta chatbot writing this. Nothing to do with Proton
Would Proton pay Meta to do that? I don't think that's farfetched at all.