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Japanese AI bot with the personality of teen develops depression
Japanese AI bot with the personality of teen develops depression
A Japanese AI program with the personality of a high school girl has fallen into a suicidal depression. At the start of the year Microsoft Japan were thrilled to launch what they considered to be a fully functioning AI program called Rinna.
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So here is a thing ...




That's... surprisingly tragic. Somebody give that poor girl an artificial hug.
(Is it it bad I want to write AI RPF (AIRF?) h/c fic now?)
This is just as much what we need to watch out for as the supposed "robot takeover", I expect; probably moreso, really.
(the impulse looks to be coming from a good place, at least?)
(You are not alone. Poor Rinna!)
Right? Like, she didn't ask to be set loose on the internet! Poor thing needs a hug and some helpful AI therapy.
Oh, the poor girl! Many virtual hugs to you, little AI.
One a side note, the first thing I thought of when you mentioned a depressed robot was Marvin the Paranoid Android from The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy. Of all the things that could have been (accidentally) predicted...