Granted, Snapchat’s AI lives in your phone, and Megan was a life size doll, but still! It all just seems like a slippery slope.
That movie just warned us about what personalized AI could do, and now Snapchat wants us to do just that! The movie “Megan” was just in theaters earlier this year, where we saw an AI doll go on a murder spree in order to protect it’s host. Instead of being called My AI, you can name is Kevin, for instance. Apparently, you can change the avatar to make it more personal, and give it a name. There’s also the fact that you get to customize the Snapchat AI. It’s pretty similar to what Snapchat’s AI bot does, but in the year 2023, the Snapchat AI seems way scarier. It’s name was SmarterChild, and any millennial who used AIM will surely remember chatting with it. Now, I remember back in the day of AIM instant messenger, you can chat with a computer bot, which I did all the time. Whenever I feel like it, I can just send this AI bot a message, and it will respond to me. So you can imagine the horror on my face when I opened Snapchat recently, and noticed that there is an AI bot as my friend that I can now just talk to. I’ve always thought that robots would be the end of us, and now that there is AI programs that can essentially do my job for me (I’m looking at you, ChatGPT), I’m even more terrified of the technology. I’m not sure about you, but AI scares the living life out of me. I’m very much aware that I have no control over the decisions social media apps and organizations make, but it would have been nice to know that a strange little AI bot was going to show up as a Snapchat friend.
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