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Former Yahoo CEO Mel used AI assistant Dazzle to write a birthday wish for his 10-year-old daughter. He said the answer was absolutely correct, but he was criticized online for relying too much on AI and promoting his own products.
Yahoo Before her daughter Marielle’s 10th birthday, former Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer was asked by her teacher to list three of Marielle’s personality traits as a birthday blessing. Mail uses AI assistant Dazzle for ghostwriting and is acceptingnew York Times During the interview, he praised the AI tool, but it started getting criticized on the internet.
Mayer, 51, launched Dazzle, an artificial intelligence (AI) assistant targeting the female consumer market, in September this year. It is said to be especially suitable for women and technology novices who lead busy lives and love to record their daily lives with photos. The application will share album data with third-party platforms based on the user’s purchasing habits and use of accessibility tools.
Dazzle’s ghostwriting came up with three popular adjectives to describe Marill: “empathetic,” “creative,” and “an animal lover.” In an exclusive interview with The New York Times, Mayer said that the three answers given by the AI assistant were “correct.”
She said she was overwhelmed by the “wide range and complexity” of possible answers, so she turned to an AI assistant to describe her daughter’s characteristics.
The New York Post reported on the 26th that Mail, a Google (Google ), the first female engineer and former CEO of Yahoo, was unable to complete the simple task of describing her daughter. Some netizens criticized on social media X: “Who would do this?”
Netizens criticized Mel on the X platform for not only shying away from using AI tools to describe her daughter, but also using them as promotional materials for her products. One netizen wrote: “Wow, if she thinks this is perfect, I think she doesn’t understand her daughter at all.”
Some netizens on the Reddit social platform responded that the three words given by the AI tool only describe a very typical 10-year-old child. Another netizen said that most mothers can describe their children and do not need to rely on personalized AI assistants.
The Mail has also had a record of controversial words and actions in the past.
In 2016, Yahoo employees told the New York Post that internal morale dropped after Mayer assured employees that “there will be no layoffs this week.”
In 2017, Mayer was subpoenaed by members of Congress to testify on Capitol Hill about a major security breach in Yahoo’s network.
Mayer resigned as CEO shortly after Yahoo’s core business was sold to communications giant Verizon.
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Because the teacher asked her to list three of her daughter’s personality traits as a birthday wish, she thought the answer might be too broad and complicated, so she switched to Dazzle to help her complete it.
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The three adjectives generated by Dazzle were “empathetic,” “creative,” and “loves animals.” Mel also said in the interview that these answers were absolutely correct.
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Netizens believed that as a well-known person in the technology field, she couldn’t even describe her daughter as relying on AI, and she even used this matter as a product promotion. She seemed to be overly dependent on the devices and was also questioned as to not understanding her children.
