I just found the article below and thought I’d repost it here. I was invited to introduce ‘Blade Runner’ at the Design Manchester festival in autumn 2017. The Science and Industry Museum website asked me to turn the intro into blogpost form. It is still up on their site
I wonder what the reaction would be if you said that ChatGPT “is female” or “is trained to answer as a woman” or “in the character of a woman”. I wonder if people have ever wondered if it manifests the behaviour of one or the other sex.
Thanks for writing this Gia. The women in the BladeRunner sequel caught my attention, being either subservient sexbots, victims, or evil. It ruined the film for me.
It would appear that in a world dominated
by males, that the female version will always
be subservient.
Just a hole to birth them out .
Then a hole to stick their dicks into.
Woman to my mind will always be the
superior species because even knowing
what we know we don’t off all males infants.
“Gynoid” is a new one to me (and my spellcheck).
I wonder what the reaction would be if you said that ChatGPT “is female” or “is trained to answer as a woman” or “in the character of a woman”. I wonder if people have ever wondered if it manifests the behaviour of one or the other sex.
Thanks for writing this Gia. The women in the BladeRunner sequel caught my attention, being either subservient sexbots, victims, or evil. It ruined the film for me.
(I think your "female" iPhone is brilliant).
On this topic I recommend Sex Dolls, Robots and Woman Hating: the Case for Desistance by Caitlin Roper. Think, indeed.
I can’t remember what I said.
I believe actions speak.
Think of the sacrifice of a mother .
She kept you in her body gave birth to you
in agony .
Even if she left you at that moment
you live because she did not discard you.
She made sure you were safe.