It’s telling how, even outside the male-dominated tech industry, most of the enthusiasm for AI is coming from men, and how women seem to be more likely to be anti-AI

E.g. in my own family, my dad is into it, my brothers are into it, and my mum and my sisters are indifferent-to-hostile

@dpk That hasn't been my experience. My mum is into it but my dad isn't.

@noisytoot Sure, I can also name women who are into it and men who aren’t; it’s a correlation, not a law

@dpk there a piece exactly about that I read and liked: https://abiawomosu.substack.com/p/they-built-stepford-ai-and-called

@aartaka @dpk I need to get that kill-yr-substack addon installed…

@aartaka @dpk

Great article!

"Across platforms, women describe their AI aversion with the language of physical revulsion: “No, they literally make me quite nauseous... even typing this out, and remembering all those AI images that I’ve seen made me wanna genuinely throw up.”

"ChatGPT’s defining feature isn’t efficiency. It’s sycophancy. She agrees with whatever you say."

Ick, indeed

@mastodonmigration @aartaka @dpk "she"? Interesting that ChatGPT got a female gendered pronoun. In my mind, ChatGPT is an "it".

@fluchtkapsel @aartaka @dpk

That's the author's point. AI occupies a stereotypically gendered role.

@aartaka @dpk

OK, this starts off great, but then seems to take a hard turn toward how AI can be made 'better' for women. Guess that no AI at all is a ship that has sailed. Sigh.

@mastodonmigration @aartaka @dpk I know. I only had contact with ChatGPT & Co using text interfaces where gendering isn't really an issue.

I recognize that female voices for assistants are a massive problem which is also mentioned in that article. I was quite happy to set my Google Assistant to the male voice (called something other like … orange?) to avoid falling into this trap (yes, I cannot avoid it completely).

This is absolutely the same phenomenon

https://mastodon.social/@wingo/116458272606043222