Jun 17, 2025, 6:07 PM

@theluddite@assemblag.es She makes a point towards the end regarding who has standing to talk to you that I think is important. I wish she'd elaborated on it a bit more. It occurred to me that we do this with one another all the time, size up whether someone talking to us has standing to be talking about what they're talking about. Professionally we do it, assessing what we perceive to be another person's qualifications and experiences and whatnot. Personally we do it, feeling out whether or not we're close enough to a person to have a conversation about some sensitive topic. Yet when it comes to interacting with chatbots, some people seem to flatten or ignore all of this and treat the bots as though they have standing to "talk" about any topic, when in fact they have no standing at all and cannot. I think that's an interesting and alarming phenomenon.

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