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Re:Anthropic blocks users for anything touching training lar... by maddie0 on Sunday November 01, 2026 @01:21AM (#50323155)
sure.

would you rather treat your AIs like people, or would you rather find yourself down the line treating a person like an AI, but without really noticing it? because you are what you practice

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Re:Anthropic blocks users for anything touching training lar... by kaffekaka on Sunday November 01, 2026 @04:19AM (#50323871)
How about just practicing treating humans like humans and machines like machines then?
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Re:Anthropic blocks users for anything touching training lar... by SimonLarsen on Sunday November 01, 2026 @04:31AM (#50323929)
Do you also treat your microwave as a person? Otherwise you could risk treating other people as a microwave some day.
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Re:Anthropic blocks users for anything touching training lar... by maddie0 on Monday November 02, 2026 @11:59AM (#50339802)
if my microwave was run by a voice assistant resembling people, I would
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Re:Anthropic blocks users for anything touching training lar... by Gormo on Sunday November 01, 2026 @09:31PM (#50332429)
How about the option of neither treating AI like people nor treating people like AI? I think treating AI like AI and treating people like people is the best approach here.
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Re:Anthropic blocks users for anything touching training lar... by maddie0 on Monday November 02, 2026 @11:57AM (#50339782)
it sounds good, but the problem is that AI is meant to resemble people, so it's a great way to end up treating people less like people in the end anyway, possibly without noticing it.
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