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Show where AI characters battle to the death is ‘not okay’, says reader
A Hunger Games-style reality TV show populated by AI characters who fight to the death on a remote island has been released online (Metro, Wed).
Each character in Non Player Combat has been AI trained on ‘hundreds of pages’ of backstory and will ‘choose when to run, where to hide, who to ally with and who to kill,’ according to producers.
I haven’t seen it and I have no intention of doing so but I find it extremely disturbing. It’s basically the same as childlike sex dolls or AI/robot brothels where customers are allowed to perform abusive acts.
Their logic is that it’s OK, no one is hurt because they are not real. It is not OK.
These things – especially when they are sold as authentic experiences and the line between fake and reality is intentionally blurred – normalise violence and there will be real-life consequences.
Some might say this is just like violent films such as Hunger Games or Battle Royale. They are very different.
The films are clearly fiction with moral or critical messages.
The game sells killings purely for entertainment, just as with dog fights.
The company is even selling the characters as autonomous and authentic. This is so twisted and disgusting and yet another example of tech companies who only care about making money. Momoko, London
AI art has no humanity
Leonardo DiCaprio is quite right to warn that AI-generated art has no humanity to it (Metro, Wed).
The advent of AI bands is particularly disturbing, as the charts could soon end up filled with formulaic music based around samples, constructed on repetitive themes, filled with synthesised sounds and overlaid with auto-tuned vocals of soulless, simplistic rhymes.
Just imagine how tawdry and vacuous that might be. Julian Self, Wolverton
‘How is Pakistan ever supposed to rise out of poverty if their brightest and best residents leave to ‘build a life here’’ says reader
Muhammad Qasim (MetroTalk, Thu) says proposals to make it harder to gain Indefinite Leave to Remain make him feel he is not welcome here, despite volunteering, working full-time and paying taxes ever since arriving from Pakistan four years ago .
His efforts are hugely commendable but why is he not doing these things in Pakistan? How is that country ever supposed to rise out of poverty if their brightest and best residents leave to ‘build a life here’ as Muhammad puts it?
In the West, we’re constantly lectured about the evils of colonialism and how we ‘stole resources’ – surely accepting skilled immigration from poor countries to staff our NHS etc is just a form of neo-colonialism? Chris H, London
Is Badenoch really ‘traumatised’ from wearing a mask in Covid?
Tory leader Kemi Badenoch says she is still ‘slightly traumatised’ by the mask-wearing we had to do during the pandemic, as NHS chiefs urge their use for those with symptoms in the face of rising flu cases (Metro, Wed).
What, in Badenoch’s rather flippant view, would constitute a major trauma? Keeping two metres away from people to avoid the spread of Covid, as we were told to do? If Badenoch gets slightly traumatised by the simple act of wearing a mask to protect herself and others, God help her! Al Charlton, via email
Reader comments on Trump’s new social media rules
With Donald Trump’s new rules on entering the US, in which visitors need to show five years of social media history in case they have posted anything critical of the president (Metro, Thu), I take it the likes of Gary Lineker will not be doing any work on the World Cup there next year. Pedro, Hammersmith
Reader calls for ‘no more policing on looks – and respect for all’
Further to AS’s perceptive letter (MetroTalk, Tue) about the Supreeme Court ruling that seems to require people to use the bathroom facilities of their birth gender.
Almost all the discussion around this topic centres on keeping ‘men’ out of women’s spaces, but transmen are routinely overlooked.
My trans friends look, sound and move like men – flat chests, deep voices, beards and hairy arms. Isn’t this just what women don’t want in their spaces?
Yet, apparently, they should use the women’s facilities because they are ‘biological’ women.
Wherever possible and feasible and affordable, let’s have gender-free facilities, self-contained cubicles, no more policing on looks – and respect for all. Anthony, Bristol
Reader points out Corbyn is one of many Your Party leaders
Metro is wrong to say that Jeremy Corbyn won’t be leader of Your Party (Metro, Dec 1). The members voted for collective leadership, so every member is the joint-leader, including Corbyn.
That might sound far-fetched, but if you want a different politics, then you have to do things differently. Sharon, Manchester
Should Zarah Sultana resign as an MP?
All these cheap shots comparing Your Party with the Judean People’s Front (of Monty Python fame) detract from an important point – co-founder Zarah Sultana was elected as a Labour Party MP.
If she respects the will of her voters, she should resign and stand in a by-election as a Your Party candidate.
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