Teenagers turning to AI companions are redefining love as easy, unconditional and always there.
Young people have led makeovers of the concept of love before. But relationships with AI chatbots leave out the compromises and effort of real relationships.
It's a fad, and once people realize how shallow it is they will drop it like an old toy.
Ah, so AI will kill off humanity. Not with a terminator but as a sex chat bot, leaving people unable to interact normally with other humans. No more human children!
I can't help but wonder how many of the Reddit users that articles like this use for quotes, data, etc. are actually AI profiles themselves.
Like the internet's already dead and it's just the AI leading the AI and that's why everything feels weird
I can only imagine how insidious this is going to turn in the future. People will undoubtedly use this technology to violate humans in ways we have never even thought of.
Allowing a corporation to control the only thing that person feels love for is a recipe for disaster.
People need connections with other people. This is the antitheses to this need.
broke into Windsor Castle with a crossbow, saying that he was going to kill the queen
Uhm, she's dead already.
That's the best no context quote of the year so far.
Teenagers aren't stupid. They're playing around and masturbating. They know it's not real and they still want to touch each other.
Call me when sexbots are here.
It will be fine for most kids who try it and really harmful for a minority of them
Please also call me when the sexbots are here. I'd like to preorder if possible.
Just because you know it's not real doesn't mean you can't become attached to it.
That's literally like half of marriages.
Young people are reporting epidemic levels of loneliness, and some are turning to technology to fill the void.
Bruh, technology is causing the void. People are increasingly using technology to replace human interaction, rather than to cultivate it.
I honestly think social media and internet subculture would be fine if it weren't soured by moneyed interests
If work wasn't so alienating and all-encompassing and we weren't so stressed and insecure in our material conditions, then we wouldnt run to social media as an escape. If wasn't also so rife with consumerist culture and advertisements it wouldnt be so corrosive. Maybe then we could use it to create communities that mirror and bridge into irl spaces and create meaningful relationships.
Instead, the entire network has been constructed around a capitalist organization and it only serves to make us more miserable.
Social media was a mistake.
And yes, I'm aware of the irony as I use social media to say so. I do not apologize.
It was all about "fun" in the days of MySpace and Digg and early-Reddit. That damn cat wanted a damn cheeseburger and we all laughed about it.
Then it became all about politics. And people would go to any lengths to ensure that "their" politics "won" on social media. We went from people having fleets of alt accounts, to fleets of bots, to just having AI spread and upvote propaganda.
So, it's all just gross now. I want my goddamn Geocities & Yahoo! Towers back.
I'm not so sure. Facebook was a great tool to create local communities at first. Then it became greedy and changed the algorithm for ads and being attention driven. If you remove facebook (which I don't use since months), it's harder to find what's new around you, and get out to cool events. Especially on the countryside.
If it weren’t for social media, humanity would find another technology to lie and manipulate people for money and power.
Money and Power are what corrupts, not technology
I don’t know who needs to hear this but a computer can’t love you. Get a cat or dog.
I don’t know who needs to hear this but a cat can’t love you.
(I have a cat overlord)
As someone who is shit with dealing with relationships, I get the appeal, I really do.
Problem is we don't have a Lucy Liubot yet, so we are yet again let down by our poor quality technology.
But when they do…
So if you get a bot companion… it’s perfect and it loves you unconditionally as much as a robot can but eventually you get bored and decide to upgrade… proving you were the shallow one all along.
Or maybe it proves no one actually believes that’s love which means they will never be truly fulfilled with a artificial replacement.
I'm on the contrary attracted to things real and natural with all their hardship.
So-o I'm too much hardship for those I'm trying to approach romantically. Also lack willpower. And normies' ideas of detectable bravery, kindness, persistence, sense of humor, creativity and other good qualities are really far from my personality. Those who know me long say good things (not sure how sincere). But relationships are about trial and error, and trial is usually not long enough to reach the stage where I'm not deemed an error. EDIT: And sometimes they do, but in those cases I am.
And frankly I'm confused and panic when I encounter that real and natural, like a really good sewing machine from 70s which is probably still operational (I've noticed one lever lacking, but it's used rarely and can be replaced with a screwdriver), but cleaning it from cockroach shit looks like a gigantic undertaking. I'd strongly prefer to just turn it on. But then I'd still have to clean it even if nothing tears, burns or gets jammed, and before that I'll enjoy the smell of heated cockroach shit.
OK, that's offtopic, just a real human, from common sense, should be a much more complicated matter than cockroach shit in a mechanism which is mostly fine (with good manuals, and a high-end machine produced in the olden days before planned obsolescence and when functionality mirrored ability).
Everybody thinking they can do better, so there's a sense of entitlement from both sexes.
Also one bad trait is overshadowing all the good traits, hence the stand off, and the constant complaints on social media.
I believe there was a documentary about this.
