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[–] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 6 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago) (1 children)

This feels like a great time to recommend a song by a parody-hate band, S.O.D.: Kill Yourself.

Please understand that this band was formed by Scott Ian, of Anthrax, in the 80s. This was a time when you could mock hateful racists and people understood that it was a joke. I wouldn't support a band saying that now, because I'd consider the excuse that it was a joke to be a front for their actual beliefs, as we've seen with people who are "just asking questions."

Anthrax and Public Enemy teamed up on Bring Tha Noise because Anthrax liked rap. Aerosmith teamed up with Run DMC because their manager / producer / someone convinced them to. Anthrax was genuinely not about hate.

Bonus trivia: Scott Ian now plays with Mr Bungle. Just as S.O.D's titular song was called Speak English or Die, Mr Bungle now plays a song called Habla Español O Muere (Speak Spanish or Die). If you can't judge that the former was a parody by the evolution of the theme, I don't know what to tell you.

Edit: formatting and more info.

[–] 4shtonButcher@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

Amazing read, thank you for this trivia comment

[–] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 4 hours ago

Thanks, I'm glad someone enjoyed it.

[–] andallthat@lemmy.world 2 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago)

ah, dear old copy/paste.... It's funny that even OpenAI doesn't trust ChatGPT enough to give more personalized LLM-generated answers.

And this sounds exactly like the type of use case AI agents are supposedly so great at that they will replace all human workers (according to Altman at least). Any time now!

i thought character ai, chai, dopple and the million other ones like them was more to blame for this

[–] Not_mikey@lemmy.dbzer0.com 56 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Ah, I was hoping this meant chatgpt would give canned responses, ie. "Seek help", whenever it detected it was being used for mental health issues, which it should. But no it's just open air flipping off anyone who asks why there chatbot pushed a person to suicide.

[–] WanderingThoughts@europe.pub 30 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Reminds me of the time that Twitter, when it was still Twitter and freshly taken over by Musk, replied to all slightly critical questions with a poop emoji.

[–] AngryRobot@lemmy.world 4 points 22 hours ago

As far as I know, emailing their public affairs address still does this.

[–] interdimensionalmeme@lemmy.ml 14 points 1 day ago

It should also refuse to answer, any medical question, any engineering question, any finance question, anything that requires the responsibility of an accredited member of the professional–managerial class, to read the question, read the answer, and then decide if the question is allowed all and if he will re-write, change or simply block replies to the question entirely.

Also such question should starting be 160$USD a pop