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David Perlmutter's avatar

Their Eyes Were Watching God was written by Zora Neale Hurston.

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Rose Gärtnerin's avatar

[blinking] OKAY. OKAY. OKAY THAT'S FINE.

Literally just yesterday I saw a bunch of screenshots from various discord/reddit/X threads where people were talking about chatbots "knowing" things about them (middle names, neighborhoods, pets, favorite meals) that they had never told the programs.

When called on it, the AI chats denied knowing that information, or called it coincidence, etc. It was a sample of "look at people discovering data mining for the first time," but after reading this I don't know which is scarier -- that Noomy would also have all that information... or that the AI in real life could be just as malevolent as Noomy. O.O (...hopefully without the soul-eating parts but tbh I'd believe it)

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