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Apr 20, 2022Liked by The Things We Don't Talk About

I hate this for you, Emma, and us!!

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We need more women building AI/technology!

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Apr 20, 2022Liked by The Things We Don't Talk About

When I paid a visit to AI Emma, I was asking fun and personal questions like "What's your first car?" and "How old are your parents?" and was super surprised by how good AI Emma is.

Surprised by the turn of events in your article, and quite shocked really. It really makes me wonder what goes on inside the minds of these so called Twitter men. What prompts them to ask these questions? What's the conditioning and cultural messages that are being sent out to them? Because that's where these toxic masculine desires and norms are stemming from.

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Exactly this! Isn't it insane that that was their first thought/line of questioning? Like why not ask it something more interesting?

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Apr 20, 2022Liked by The Things We Don't Talk About

Your experience reminds me of the articles in January about men creating AI girlfriends on Replika only to abuse them. The line of "It's okay because it's not real" is such BS.

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Ughhhhhh. Exactly this. It's like perhaps address why you feel such a huge need to harass/abuse women vs. creating a "fake" woman to take your anger out on.

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Apr 19, 2022Liked by The Things We Don't Talk About

Amazingly disheartening. Wish I was more surprised... but I'm not, unfortunately.

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I feel the same!

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