RS with your home river.
Clearwater River at the confluence with Spahats Creek, just below Spahats Falls. Flows from Clearwater Lake in Wells Gray Park, BC into the North Thompson on its way to the Fraser and ultimately the Salish Sea.
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![Even as such stories draw concern from the public and from lawmakers, tech companies appear to be doubling down on AI companions. OpenAI recently acquired a startup called ‘io’ to collaborate on what its cofounder and CEO, Sam Altman, calls “maybe the biggest thing [we’ve] ever done as a company”: a screen-less, pocket-sized AI companion. Meta founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg recently floated his own vision for AI friends. Tech giants are no longer just building platforms for human connection or tools to free up time for it, but pushing technology that appears to empathize and even create social relationships with users.
This is dangerous ground, and it is critical for tech firms to strip away illusions of personality and cognition in their products while we work out associated risks and how to mitigate them.
Deceptive, dangerous design
Chatbots communicate their “social-ness” through a range of design choices, such as appearing to “type” or “pause in thought,” or using phrases like “I remember.”](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:sj6lnyejraq7de5mswj7wr2k/bafkreidxskn67vx57njwik6fsy4ue6euuy3j2t26jb3bdgoivaz5ek5xoy)
