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[โ€“] mojofrododojo@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

meh. I don't blame the AI. I blame the engineers and executives that paid to build it. Never forget GIGO. The AI is literally just running the instructions it was given.....and those were given to him by some amoral developer or dirtbag c-suite creature who couldn't give two flying fucks at a rolling donut when it came to human decency.

[โ€“] Randomgal@lemmy.ca 2 points 11 months ago

Yep, a lot of people seem to forget that these Machines act like this because a human told them to.

Because, you know... They are machines.