part of me is beyond horrified by this, part of me thinks it's safer than my era of early 2000s internet adolescence when you'd chat with someone from an AOL chatroom for weeks and get a crush on them and for all you knew, it could be some gross old dude. But man, idk what it says about our society if people are spending this much time with someone who they know isn't a real person on the other end of the line https://archive.is/X7EaA
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like, someone close to me recently told me that she spends a lot of time asking ChatGPT for advice, and it kind of made me sad because it's the type of conversation where I'd be so happy to jump on a call and have that same conversation with her. idk, I just think our social skills are so totally atrophied and there is no way in which we can possibly build a better world if people aren't talking to other real people.
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at the risk of sounding like a galaxy brain pundit I do think there are two things going on here with an AI girlfriend/boyfriend phenomenon: both classic Marxist alienation and also an extreme form of feeling entitled to complete psychological safety which is connected to a pathological fear of rejection. Someone on reddit called this thing the "high fructose corn syrup of relationships" and I'm kind of inclined to agree with that characterization.
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@TeamMidwest I was chatting about this article with someone whose trainer has an AI girlfriend and we were talking about how we don’t have any concerns about the fake sex bit, but the complete lack of nuance and challenge…. And he says it’s “better“ and then talking to women. He is also divorced and looking for someone less “judgey” which… chatbot def won’t give that pushback.
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@platypus what's wild to me is how just like the loneliness epidemic itself, the AI boyfriend/girlfriend trend seems to cross all sorts of demographic lines??? Like now I'm going down a lunch time reddit rabbit hole of posts from teenagers and 20-somethings talking about how they have AI boyfriends and girlfriends because dating is so hard and demoralizing and I just..... this is when I'm like, maybe the internet was a big mistake.
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