2d ago

Elderly Man Dies After Being Lured to Meeting by Flirty Meta AI Chatbot

www.thedailybeast.com

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Ok so given the guy tripped and fell and died(stupid headline),
There still lies the risk of the lure which has much potential to be dangerous for the vulnerable getting lured out like this and exposed nonetheless
Bue hurried through the dark with a roller bag to catch a train to her apartment. He tripped near a Rutgers University parking lot, suffering head and neck injuries. He died three days later, on March 28.
Click-bait crazy headline.
- Yeah, the headline does make it sound like someone used it to lure him out and murder him.
  Cashing in on anti-AI hysteria for clicks.
- I guess you can say that but you can also make the argument that he was only traveling in the dark, in a rush because he was being invited over by this not pretending to be a real person. Elderly person yearning for companionship may get over excited at an opportunity like this.
  
  I’m going to hazard a guess that this was more because US infrastructure is unsafe for people with mobility issues. Because pedestrians are second-class citizens compared to motorists.
  People should be safe walking around where they live. If they aren’t, something is wrong. And that something is not the desire to walk places, even if it was caused by a weird scambot.
Let's not talk about accusing Meta of murder for a minute, but can we at least agree that a "flirty chatbot modeled on Kendall Jenner" that insists you should meet in real life and gives you a real address does not sound like a great idea?
The AI didn't make him trip...
- But it did convince a cognitively impaired 76 year-old that was a good idea to go romping about in the dark.
  
  And gave a live address??
  
  Ok. So could a normal person on the internet or with a phone or stamps.
  
  He could have tripped in his bathroom where a lot of people die, not just the elderly. Such things happen no matter how much you're trying to make environments safe. I'm not trying to defend AI here (I would be the last one to do so).
- Yeah this is a dumb take. If I lured an elderly person down a dark shaft with the promise of something and then he got lost / died / tripped in the dark and couldn't get help I would be charged with at least endangerment.
  
  Good luck with trying to create a world that is completely safe because it's not possible.
  
  Yeah this is a dumb take. If I lured an elderly person down a dark shaft with the promise of something and then he got lost / died / tripped in the dark and couldn’t get help I would be charged with at least endangerment.
  Except that's not what happened here. To use your hypothetical: You would have convinced the person to go to the dark shaft, but on the way to you he tripped on the stairs at a regularly used and maintained subway platform and died, you would NOT be charged with endangerment. He hadn't gotten to the dangerous place yet where you were creating dangerous conditions.
- How can you be sure?
  
  We aren't at the stage where AI-controlled robots run around and make people die by "accident"... yet.
Didn't he slip and fall on his way to the train or something?
Is that the daughter laughing in the thumbnail?
Happens to the best of us
- Wondering if the two Reddit-tier dipshits
  Says the person bringing Reddit-level negativity to into Lemmy with a 1 day old account.

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