2026-04-16 17:48 UTC
@datarama @Linza
Way back, when I was a child and found a chat room on the internet for the first time while sitting at a library computer, I ended up responding to someone with a pretty rude message that I would never have said to anyone in person. I didn't mean it in any way, I think I just kind of panicked.
It actually scared me, and made me realise that I need to fully make the connection that when I'm in a chat room, I'm not just writing things on a screen to make stuff happen in a computer, I'm talking to people! It goes for the internet in general but I think it's easiest to see and learn in a chat room.
It should be blindingly obvious, but it's a connection I think a lot of people on the internet never fully make. And if you don't make that connection I think you can end up behaving like a psychopath even when you aren't one in real life.
And to understand and use chatbots without hurting myself, I feel I would need to unlearn this connection I've made that I'm talking to a person in the other end.
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