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Re:Meta is killing off its own AI-powered Instagram and Face... by paxys on Friday January 03, 2025 @08:08PM (#42591279)
Would you say the same if the bot identified itself as being from a certain religion? Or working for a specific company? Having a random personality trait? Supporting a sports team? No one would bat an eye, and none of those would mean it is okay to discriminate against them on that basis.

Removing racism does not mean removing race.

Re:Meta is killing off its own AI-powered Instagram and Face... by wewtyflakes on Friday January 03, 2025 @08:12PM (#42591296)
I think it is fine to discriminate against companies (that's what boycotts are) and sports teams (that's what rivals do).
Re:Meta is killing off its own AI-powered Instagram and Face... by noirbot on Friday January 03, 2025 @08:23PM (#42591373)
Yea, if anything a bot that just reposts and talks about sports news for a specific team is kinda the perfect test case for something like this. It lets you test "identity" for a bot, but no one's going to be that upset if the Mets Fan Bot isn't sufficiently obsessed. Plus, it'll know all of the history and stats for the team, even if it'll probably be wrong a lot. Not that most human fans aren't wrong a lot about their sports teams' history.
Re:Meta is killing off its own AI-powered Instagram and Face... by attila-lendvai on Saturday January 04, 2025 @03:29AM (#42593386)
it's fine to discriminate agains actions and behavior or self-proclaimed or observed values.

but it's dumb to discriminate against coincidental attributes.

Re:Meta is killing off its own AI-powered Instagram and Face... by bryanrasmussen on Saturday January 04, 2025 @09:59AM (#42595061)
there are things that bots, by virtue of being bots, cannot be - they cannot be of a particular religion, possess a gender, or have a particular race. They can work for a specific company. They cannot have a personality, but they can exhibit personality traits.

Anything that a bot can do and possess I have no difficulty in its being labelled as doing and possessing those things.

Otherwise I do have problems, although theoretically a bot could exist as a piece of art and in that case we should forgive these lying claims to qualities they cannot possess by the current standards our society holds for artistic practice.