Greetings from Terminal C at LGA. I'm heading down to Atlanta this morning to do an AI workshop with our friends at AMBSE.
In the news: Yesterday, I wrote an essay entitled, "." It's about a television commercial that features a father using Gemini AI to help his young daughter write a fan letter to Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone. It is one of the most disturbing commercials I’ve ever seen – and I cannot believe it is still in heavy rotation.
To be clear, I love the idea of a young aspiring athlete inspired by an Olympic athlete. That’s awesome. But after the exposition, the father decides that rather than coach his daughter to express herself honestly and then assist her by helping her use her own words, he will write the following prompt into Gemini: “Help my daughter write a letter telling Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone how inspiring she is and be sure to mention that my daughter plans on breaking her world record… one day. (She says sorry, not sorry.)”
This is exactly what we do not want anyone to do with AI. Ever. .
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