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Meta's flirty AI chatbot invited a retiree to New York. He never made it home. (www.reuters.com)
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[-] artyom@piefed.social 52 points 1 month ago

He and Linda began dating in the 1980s...He was a chef by then. He’d arrived in the United States from Thailand, speaking no English and washing dishes to pay for an electrical engineering degree.

This is the most shocking part of this story to me...

[-] C4551E 12 points 1 month ago

most people still don't realize how far we've fallen

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