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I understand the point of this [formerly serious newspaper that has devolved into fluff] profile of #MarissaMayer (former CEO of Yahoo!) may be rage bait, so I am not including a link to it.
But ouf, reading these words (which have been widely circulating online) has been painful, especially as a mom.
You can't think of 3 qualities that make your child special, so you ask an AI Assistant? NO, NO, NO, NO. UNACCEPTABLE.
I imagine Marielle reading this and my heart breaks for her.
@_elena Narrator: In reality, her daughter is a bully who cheats on tests and kicks puppies.
@_elena - it was the first thing I thought about it: how coome a mom doesn´t know three "bullet points summerizing" her daughter... it cannot be true.
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Is there a 10yo out there who doesn't love animals?
Such a generic answer. What else? Does the daughter also have two legs?
@_elena lots of similar stories coming out from techbros as well. They relay these stories as life optimization hacks. What the hell!?!? Why did you even have kids?
Just a couple of weeks ago, some techbro was bragging about the idea to train an AI on his voice so it could read any story to his kid. Dude! You're doing it wrong, reading to your kids is one of the great joys of parenting!
Sam Altman talked about using AI to get talking points for use with his kid.
These people are so weird.
@_elena How careless a mother she is that she had to ask AI for her daughter's special points!?
You know, being a pro-AI person, I think this woman fails being a mother.
She probably wouldn't have been stressed at all thinking of three bullet points describing her ai.
@_elena What can one expect? These people are nothing but cruel morons. Sociopathic narcissists. Fuck them all.
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As a father of two, if you can't quickly say three things that make your son/daughter special, you have a problem as a parent.
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Thank you so much Elana, yes it is an absolute No to use AI for such questions.
On the other hand I think the problem already starts with the idea that everything should fit into 3 bullet points.🤔
Imagine a laudatory speech that just reads 3 bullet points... 😀
@_elena if this felt like an impossible task for her i really do not understand how she made it through life
This actually made me cry, so so sad. It just hit me, f*ck.
@hnapel I'm SO SORRY! I'm now having second thoughts about sharing this. On the upside, a lot of people are disturbed by this story and say it is unacceptable. Team human all the way, let's resist the AI-pilled sociopaths
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when it comes to kids, it may just be ragebait and then they succeeded, but if true it's really sad, not knowing a few things about your own kiddo and then turn to a machine for answers.
@_elena My guess is that poor Marielle is going to need years of therapy whether she reads this or not. I can't imagine her mother having a healthy relationship with her, based on that snippet into their lives.
@_elena It's merely fluff for her new startup, Dazzle, and is likely something written by a PR flack she employs. Chances of it being true are close to zero, but chances she signed off on it are higher.
@_elena What in the actual hell is this?! She had TEN YEARS to gather insights on her daughter and she went with these shitty AI answers?!
I swear to God, I hope in the future CPS will take a closer look at parents using LLMs to raise kinds.
@_elena i learned some time ago that when corporate asks you about your relationship with "AI" it is a trick question. they couldn't care less about what uou really think or ecen what the actual reality is. it is like asking "how much do you love big brother"... these profiles of execs are nostly just marketing. and the question for them is similar: how much are you with "us"? the answer from marissa is clear: i am willing to put my own child at the altar as a sacrifice - that's how much i'm in. it is scary. and it may land her her next job.
@grepe indeed, it's really disturbing. That said, Marissa Mayer has been failing upward for over a decade now, ouf.
@_elena they’re just trying to milk our reactions to push some new AI app you’ve never heard of. They know what they’re doing https://arstechnica.com/ai/2024/07/dear-sydney-why-i-find-googles-ai-olympics-ad-so-disturbing/
@_elena unmm you do know this was a paid promotion for dazzle, that you are now promoting… unpaid 
@_elena reminds me of a recent realistic tv show about moms and daughters. the mom of an olympic champion (!) were asked to say some good qualities of her daughter. she thought really hard for a while, and came up with "she can handle pressure well". and when she was asked to say some weaknesses. and she came up instantly with a whole long list of "messy room" "has a cat" (!) "eat snack/junk food" "not punctual" ....
@_elena what the actual fuck
@_elena The hard part of this problem is limiting myself to three bullet points for my kids!
Still wouldn't use an AI.
To be fair, engineers are not famous for stuff like that. In that the only thing that changed in 20 years is that the person had someone (or some...THING..¹) to ask help from.
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¹ thank you William Shatner and Twilight Zone.
@_elena Is so crazy I don’t even believe those things. They make stories to sell their crap and don’t mind liying on their lifes (or maybe they are as awful)
@_elena note from the field: this is not how people act who like cracking hard problems
@datn indeed! Plus thinking about three qualities of your child is NOT a hard problem. It's the easiest thing!
@_elena I know, right? reportedly she was "overwhelmed" by the task.
i guess that given she saw it as hard, her approach ought to have been something like "*knuckle crack* let's begin with love"
instead it was "phone a fake friend made of stolen shit"
@_elena dear god. I hope this is just a misguided made up anecdote to sell her AI platform. However, it also wouldn't surprise me if this actually happened.
@_elena it looks like an ad, to be honest. If the protagonist would have been a ciswhite heteroman, I would have believe it. «ALEXA: Daughter? Do I have a daughter?».
@cibersheep Mayer infamously went back to the office 2 weeks after giving birth (and she worked remotely the first week after the birth of her children).
I'm beginning to question how well she knows her own children - since bonding with them doesn't appear to be a priority. I feel terrible typing this, but what is the point of being a billionaire when you can't even take time off to spend precious time with your offspring? Isn't this the most important thing in life?
@_elena @cibersheep Because billionaires are addicts. They are addicted to amassing more wealth and it gives them dopamine hits like nothing else in their lives, including children. It's the exact same behavioral pattern that gambling addicts experience and it's not much different than other addictions including drugs and alcohol. The only important thing for them is the dopamine hit. All other brain circuitry has long been circumvented.
@_elena uff. I mean, not that everyone has to agree, but I think is sad. Again, I'm not example of anything as money is not my priority (and that show a privilege)... and part of a «Modern Family», but prioratizimg a company vs your family would have made miserable.
@_elena I remember when she made every remote yahoo employee come to the office while she built a nursery at her office exclusively for her daughter.
she is awful.
@_elena The AI also came back with three of the most basic, common and expected responses. That alone should disqualify it.
I would never hold it against the daughter but if I were the teacher and there was a way to just kick mom out of the school...
@_elena IKR! I was now sitting here thinking of all the many qualities my son has. Thinking of three is absolutely no problem at all for me.
Why are people outsourcing their entire thought process to AI?!
@harib_murshidi @andycarolan @_elena Dazzle, her "personal assistant"
@andycarolan Same vibes as Sam Altman suggesting that parents create a personalized GenAI podcast for the drive to school... (instead of actually talking to their children). These people are not well and they are responsible for widely deployed technologies. Critical thinking and digital media literacy are more important than ever.
@_elena @andycarolan Tech is run by sociopaths. I cannot consider this in other terms any longer.
@_elena @andycarolan perfection: "these people are not well"
@_elena Surely this is parody? Right?!
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@_elena That's like the guy from Suno, who said the goal is to remove the chore of creating music.
Maybe if Marielle learns to ask the chatbot directly, then Marissa would have more free time, removing the chore of having kid?