Ciao Diego, scusa se riapro il thread nuovamente, ma su altri canali ho ricevuto due segnalazioni interessanti sul tema: Una del 2016, in Inglese di cui vi riporto in calce qualche passaggio. https://qz.com/818151/virtual-assistant-bots-like-siri-alexa-and-cortana-spe... L'altra di pochi mesi fa in Spagnolo https://www.yorokobu.es/voces-en-igualdad/ Entrambi mostrano alcuni fatti interessanti, su quanto l'uomo si possa adattare alla macchina (e quale enorme potere manipolatorio queste abbiano). Mostrano anche un fatto interessante da un punto di vista socioeconomico: una buona quantità degli acquirenti di questi prodotti (NOI non sappiamo quanti, perché il 5% delle interazioni non dice nulla sulla popolazione, le aziende lo sanno e non le diffonderanno mai... con la scusa della privacy), non capisce NULLA di tecnologia perché è disposto a pagare con il proprio denaro (evidentemente troppo) un oggetto che li spia continuamente e registra ogni scorreggia (e peggio). QUANDO le registrazioni verranno diffuse da un leak, forse impareranno la lezione... ma a caro prezzo. Giacomo ____ As bots do more of our bidding, their algorithms are spending more time parrying flirtations, dodging personal questions, and dealing with darker forms of sexual harassment. ”Lots of use cases come from that motivation,” says Ilya Eckstein, CEO of Robin Labs whose bot platform helps truckers, cabbies, and other drivers find the best route and handle logistics. “People want to flirt, they want to dream about a subservient girlfriend, or even a sexual slave. It may just be more for laughs, or something deeper underneath the surface.” [...] The scale of the sexual harassment issue is unclear. Most bot makers say they encounter it regularly. Eckstein says 5% of interactions in their database are categorized as clearly sexually explicit, although he believes the actual number is far higher due to the difficulty of identifying them automatically. A writer for Microsoft’s Cortana, Deborah Harrison, said earlier this year at the Virtual Assistant Summit that “a good chunk of the volume of early-on inquiries” were into Cortana’s sex life. “That’s not the kind of interaction we want to encourage,” said Harrison. The nature of the harassment varies. Some people seem to be testing the software’s limits, and teenagers seem to be purposefully eliciting outrageous responses for fun, says Eckstein. But others are playing out aggressive, degrading, and violent fantasies of control and domination. There’s also a small number of lonely users desperate to find partners, even if they’re an AI, says Eckstein. “You see some people try very hard to establish a relationships with the bot,” he says, noting a full third of interactions with their bots are simply conversations without any intended task. “Some users are amazingly stubborn in that sense. They walk from one assistant to another trying to find one that will understand them best and can have a conversation with them.” [...] “There’s a legacy of what women are expected to be like in an assistant role,” said Microsoft’s Harrison. “We wanted to be really careful that Cortana…is not subservient in a way that sets up a dynamic that we didn’t want to perpetuate socially. We are in a position to lay the groundwork for what comes after us.”