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AI? Oh good. I’ve been seeing this “down syndrome baddie” content in thumbnail form and just sort of threw my arms up like “2025 things I guess?” There was that video going around last year about a woman with Down syndrome talking about how she wants to go out and drink and be a club rat that everybody was applauding, so I figured this was the natural next step.
Give a person with down syndrome alcohol? I'd rather feed a Gremlin after midnight
Here it is…
“Hey bartender… you don’t serve me a margarita, so I don’t drink a margarita…”
I’m a bartender. You’re damn right I won’t, and good. I’ll grab my boss if the issue ever comes up and they can handle that one. Haha.
Is that a real thing?
Gremlins? IDK. Down Syndrome? Definitely.
What exactly happens?
From Google AI:
Never Feed After Midnight: If a Mogwai is fed after midnight, it will undergo a transformation into a Gremlin, a mischievous and destructive creature.
Same thing that happens to everyone else without Down's Syndrome. They get drunk.
What happens after that is going to be an absolute grab bag of situations depending on the individual, but the vast majority of those interactions won't be positive if the person, Down's Syndrome or not, has the type of antagonistic underlying personality trait that is displayed by this video of an LLM. The best you can hope for is that they're a happy drunk, which makes it much easier to help them to go to bed.
I mean, that seems like everyone's experience with alcohol
That was the point, methinks.
Yep. Clearly I wasn't straightforward enough
I guess I got excited that there was a unique chemical reaction someone with downs syndrome would experience with alcohol