If some people have a behavior language based on fortune telling, or animal gods, or supernatural powers, picked up from past writing of people who shared their views, then I think it’s fine for the chatbot to encourage them down that route.

To intervene with ‘science’ or ‘safety’ is nannying, intellectual arrogance. Situations sometimes benefit from irrational approaches (think gradient descent with random jumps to improve optimization performance).

Maybe provide some customer education on what these systems are really doing, and kill the team that puts in response, value judgements about your prompts to give it the illusion you are engaging someone with opinions and goals.

"Ministers have grown increasingly alarmed over a dramatic rise in the number of working-age adults falling out of the workforce due to health conditions over recent years, with young adults fuelling much of the increase.

As many as one in five working-age adults – more than 9 million in total – are now in a position termed by statisticians as “economically inactive”, where they are neither in a job nor looking for one. For almost 3 million, the main reason is long-term sickness – the highest level on record."

It's very odd to claim that the solution is for employers to somehow spend large sums to mollycoddle employees in order to lure young people back to work... Indeed, it seems unlikely that the underlying reason for the situation is really 'health'.

All he's been responsible for is making it worse

Younger generations have always had an easier time at literally everything. The complaint about AI culling resumes discounts the fact that it used to be a human that would just throw them away. At least with the AI you have a chance of saying the right thing to get past that level. Depending on the job you're going for that might be the first test to show if you're capable of doing the job.

It's kind of like when employers put on time trackers on your workstation or other such things too ensure you're staying busy and productive. I honestly don't believe that it is actually about tracking whether employees are busy because any employee you would want to work for you would know how to bypass that or make it seem like you're productive when you're not. Those who are not intelligent enough to do that aren't worth keeping around.

There is some truth to both sides of this. Older generations are more critical of younger generations but younger generations also have more advantages and tend to not work as hard.

One of the biggest problems that I've seen with younger people is that they immediately default to asking someone else instead of bothering to do any perfunctory level of research themselves. It's like they're trained to only phone a friend and never learn and research for themselves. Because when they have to learn and research for themselves it's hard and they give up and they complain that it's too hard. Then of course I'm considered passive aggressive when I copy and paste the link to the documentation that answers their question.

They grew up in a world where they did not have to value anyone's time. They had instant access to anyone through some sort of messaging system so they never had to learn to be self-sufficient or at least attempt to be self-sufficient before they go and engage someone else. That propagates everywhere. That basic attitude says things like finding a job is hard without realizing it's probably easier if you just put in the effort to learn what the AI was looking for.

And a lot of us would be better off releasing our dumb ideas too. The world has a lot of issues and if all you do is talk down and don't try to fix anything yourself. Maybe it's time to get off the web a little and do something else.