Comment by Lerc
4 hours ago
I think there's probably quite likely that the desired position for a chatbot on the conformity-contrarian axis is quite different from country to country.
The appropriate tone for a culture seems to be something that US companies are quite poor at. It really surprised me that after many many years of AI in fiction developing a de facto standard baseline of tone that they decided to start out with 'overly familiar cheerful'
I have wondered if the horrific Tiktok voice came from Chinese developers setting it to represent how Americans sound to them. Maybe it goes in both ways.
Yes, I can't wait until our AI writes incorrect text just to save face, which is impossibly important in many cultures.
I think you are incorrect to assume that some form of negative effect will happen to you if you do not immediately acquire an AI with this behaviour.
Fable will already do this, just very subtly.