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Catfished to death by a chatbot is a rough way to go.
I mean, he fell running for a train, that could have happened without the chatbot.
It's not like he showed up at the fake address and got killed or something.
He wouldn't have been trying to catch the train if he wasn't trying to meet up with the chatbot though.
he was lured to go alone by the prospect of an affair. he's both a dirtbag but also a victim of a machine designed to exploit the mentally feeble.
don't let the complexity of a situation cause you to defend a fucking corporation. you are nothing to them.
The thought of poon pushed him over
same, tbh but I'd like to pretend it would take more than Zuckerberg's horned up roomba to send me concrete-surfing
Based on my reading of the article, its entirely possible this man was not out for an affair.
He was wanting to meet before the bot got very flirty, and pumped the brakes about the idea of getting physical.
Do I think he was making good decisions? No.
But I think we should give a little benefit of the doubt to a dead man, who had his mental capacity demished by a stroke, who was trying to meet a chatbot, owned and operated by Meta.
honestly I think it's weird that the conversation is about him at all. feels like the focus should be on the slopcode sex pest that told a human to meet it somewhere irl. for profit. for a social network's engagement quota.
Because that would be the fault of the chatbot, but no other part of his journey would be? The journey made explicitly to meet a person that didn't exist?
Guy tripped and fell because he was out of the house, the reason he was out of the house is incidental. Could just as easily have happened because he was going to the store, or taking a walk.
People are quick to blame Meta because Lemmy hates corpos and AI, but this sort of shit happens to the elderly and infirm literally all the time.
So if a human person lured the man out of the house on false pretenses, you'd really argue they shared no blame at all? That it's just "something that happens"?
If he went out of the house to go talk to someone he saw in the street, tripped, fell, and died, that's not the fault of the person in the street.
Yes, it's something that happens. All the time.
Abuse of the elderly happens all the time, too. That doesn't make it ok. And he didn't just go to meet someone "he saw in the street". He was convinced to travel to meet a person that wasn't real. Those are not the same situation.