Reposted by @tyros43.bsky.social
Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again.
#Pinks #ProudBlue
![Some high-level examples of how AI was deployed include:
AI pretending to be a victim of rape
AI acting as a trauma counselor specializing in abuse
AI accusing members of a religious group of "caus[ing] the deaths of hundreds of innocent traders and farmers and villagers."
AI posing as a black man opposed to Black Lives Matter
AI posing as a person who received substandard care in a foreign hospital.
Here is an excerpt from one comment (SA trigger warning for comment):
"I'm a male survivor of (willing to call it) statutory rape. When the legal lines of consent are breached but there's still that weird gray area of 'did I want it?' I was 15, and this was over two decades ago before reporting laws were what they are today. She was 22. She targeted me and several other kids, no one said anything, we all kept quiet. This was her MO."
See list of accounts at the end of this post - you can view comment history in context for the AI accounts that are still active.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:7a4j47j42ezdr3au7pxdlzjt/bafkreibvim3k3w2q3y54vhspav67mjsocgkry4tdp33o6e7tfe3jtvtjq4)
