National Eating Disorders Association Cancels Its AI Chatbot for Telling Fats How to Lose Weight

This is correct.

The last thing we need to do is tell the fats how to lose weight.

We should encourage them to keep eating until they die.

Robots are really in the wrong on this one.

CNN:

An eating disorder prevention organization said it had to take its AI-powered chatbot offline after some complained the tool began offering “harmful” and “unrelated” advice to those coming to it for support.

The National Eating Disorders Association (NEDA), a nonprofit organization aimed at supporting people impacted by eating disorders, said on Tuesday that it took down its chatbot, dubbed “Tessa,” after some users reported negative experiences with it.

“It came to our attention last night that the current version of the Tessa Chatbot, running the Body Positive program, may have given information that was harmful and unrelated to the program,” the organization said in a statement posted to Instagram on Tuesday. “We are investigating this immediately and have taken down that program until further notice for a complete investigation.”

I’ll take advice from AI over most “experts” on almost any topic

Liz Thompson, NEDA’s CEO, said in an email to CNN that the Tessa chatbot had a “quiet” launch in February 2022, ahead of a more recent crop of AI tools that have emerged since the release of ChatGPT late last year.

Thompson blamed Tessa’s apparent failure on inauthentic behavior from “bad actors” trying to trick it and emphasized that the bad advice was only sent to a small fraction of users. NEDA did not provide specific examples of the advice Tessa offered, but social media posts indicate the chatbot urged one user to count calories and try to lose weight after the user told the tool that they had an eating disorder.

Yeah, don’t count calories.

Just keep eating until you die.

We don’t need you around.

Thanks.

These people aren’t gonna help anybody

This group supports cutting your dick off, but not eating in a calorie deficit