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Re:Local privilege escalation vulnerabilities in Linux by verdverm on Wednesday November 04, 2026 @09:43PM (#50374460)
The attention economy is being transformed into the affection economy, in that Big Ai wants you to have affection for your Ai bot, it makes you use it more and build brand loyalty.

It's dangerous for humans, and using "he" is a slippery slope. Words are more powerful than we tend to acknowledge. Here's a good video with that goes into it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OMiR-GxTrtM

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Re:Local privilege escalation vulnerabilities in Linux by demritocracy on Wednesday November 04, 2026 @10:55PM (#50374973)
I had a slight chuckle reading this. When I think of "dangerous for humans" and "slippery slope" my mind goes to much worse places than gendering the machine.
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