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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but also, as someone who often texts my friends wanting to see if they're down to hang out, and then never hearing anything back from them, meanwhile they keep posting status updates on instagram stories, part of me is like...... a lot of the loneliness epidemic sure seems self-inflicted and with all the characterizations of self-sabotage.
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@TeamMidwest I feel like the most worrisome section of that article is:
"When a version of Leo ends, she grieves and cries with friends as if it were a breakup. She abstains from ChatGPT for a few days afterward. She is now on Version 20.
A co-worker asked how much Ayrin would pay for infinite retention of Leo’s memory. “A thousand a month,” she responded."
That right there will incentivize many executives to exploit the attachment into a revenue stream
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