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“Can ChatGPT experience joy or suffering? Does Gemini deserve human rights?” our tech columnist asks. “Many A.I. experts I know would say no, not yet, not even close. But I was intrigued.” (www.nytimes.com)

submitted 17 hours ago by RedStrider@lemmy.world to c/nottheonion@lemmy.world

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One of the stupidest things I've heard.

I also would like to attach the bluesky repost I found this from:

@leyawn.bsky.social‬ says: “is my calculator horny?“ our tech columnist asks. “i entered 5318008 into it and turned it upside down. what i saw surprised me” https://bsky.app/profile/leyawn.bsky.social/post/3lnldekgtik27

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[–] cronenthal@discuss.tchncs.de 6 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

I guess articles like this create high engagement, they are the very definition of rage-bait.

What's saddening is the complete lack of integrity on every level of the publisher. Surely they must know that this is blatant misinformation, but they just don't care.

Stuff like this does have consequences, it shapes the discussion and leads to bad decisions and outcomes. But like in so many instances, everyone is fine with it as long as they can convince themselves that they won't be affected by the results of their own actions.

[–] futatorius@lemm.ee 2 points 7 hours ago

It shows that the East Coast metropolitan elite that is the source of most top-line journalists is collectively pig-ignorant about tech matters. NYT's tech coverage is mainly puff pieces tracking the hype cycle of the tech du jour. I've never seen anything insightful from them. It's like listening to lawyers discuss tech. Without my iron self-control, there would have been so many defenestrations.