Post by @datarama@hachyderm.io

2026-04-16 15:45 UTC

@Linza I've also read that - and it doesn't surprise me at all. I would probably dispute that LLMs are exploited in the same ways that women are - because, among many other things, it is impossible to emotionally exploit a machine that can't experience emotions. But modern chat-tuned LLMs sure are eerily good at simulating the kind of responses you'd see from people who've been abused in ways that women are a lot more likely to have experienced than men. (I'm also not surprised that women are more likely than men to hate the "overwhelm the user with an extremely long-winded flood of at best quasi-relevant bullshit" response style. And I say this as an autistic person who is prone to infodumping.)

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@booksquirrel@tech.lgbt 2026-04-16 17:48

@datarama @Linza Way back, when I was a child and found a chat room on the internet for the first time while sitting at a library computer, I ended up responding to someone with a pretty rude message that I would never have said to anyone in person. I didn't mean it in any way, I think I just kind of panicked. It actually scared me, and made me realise that I need to fully make the connection that when I'm in a chat room, I'm not just writing things on a screen to make stuff happen in a computer, I'm talking to people! It goes for the internet in general but I think it's easiest to see and learn in a chat room. It should be blindingly obvious, but it's a connection I think a lot of people on the internet never fully make. And if you don't make that connection I think you can end up behaving like a psychopath even when you aren't one in real life. And to understand and use chatbots without hurting myself, I feel I would need to unlearn this connection I've made that I'm talking to a person in the other end.

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@Linza@kamu.social 2026-04-16 18:56

@datarama So women are only exploited emotionally?

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