• sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    6 days ago

    Its creepy that your pet could understand a very simplified version of what you are saying?

    How?

    Why?

    It’s creepy that your Alexa is always listening, and sending all that info to a giant megacorporation.

    It’s creepy that people pay for that ‘privelege’.

    It’s creepy that Grok can undress a woman.

    What is creepy about the idea that a small animal you presumably love… can understand you a bit?

    Its … not going to be able to tell anyone very much, in very specific detail.

    You can’t have ‘ability to execute a command’ without ‘ability to comprehend a command’.

    Dogs are commonly trained to execute a variety of complex commands in multiple specialities… the creepiness is just … the idea that cats can also do something similar?

    I find that to be amazing and wonderful, I don’t find this creepy at all.

    I genuinely do not understand the specific thing here that is creepy.

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        6 days ago

        Things that are not expected are surprising, maybe shocking.

        For them to also be creepy, they have to also be… digusting, unsettling, off putting, remind you of some kind of tragedy or trauma, or indicate some kind of nefarious intent, something like that.

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          5 days ago

          I don’t expect a strange dark figure in my house. It is creepy if I see one ominously standing there. I may find upon inspection that its actually my hat- and coat-rack and totally explainable, but it was still creepy.