And this has actually been going on since before the pandemic. Shits fucked. This kinda parasocial shit is imo kind of a natural evolution from youtubers > streamers > vtubers > TTS vtubers > LLM TTS vtubers > LLMs
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This is too disturbing I don't want to believe this is for real. These people must be taking the piss, please?
Not at all. Some people are really using these chatbots as emotional support or even therapists, sometimes with devastating results (suicide).
A lot of it his vastly exaggerated. You will get like a one person post something on twitter and suddenly it's a new trend. Also, you can easily find 10 people to sing up for anything. So someone will setup a facebook group about falling in love with AI, some people will join out of curiosity, 10 people will post about their "wireborn husbands" and the media will run with it like it's common now.
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This with the right controls and rules could actually be a positive thing for people who don't want or aren't ready for a relationship with a real person. However as the people who are running things are Elon, Sam, and Mark, there is fuck all chance of that and whatever this ends up as it will be exploitative and will result in deaths.
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Normal people do this in their heads
My prediction: people will continue being weird.
Im not joking when I say this, as a liberal it is our responsibility to respect these people's choices.
As a child of the 90s... I miss riding my bike all day.
We shouldn't judge them for getting to this point, but we also shouldn't just leave them be. People like the one in the screenshot are clearly in need of therapy.
We already saw the story of the guy who poisoned himself with sodium bromide at the "advice" of chatgpt. What kind of outward damage could someone who confides in a chatbot be capable of?
How is this unique? They write, "the bag is not the toy" on plastic bags. Are plastic bags evil?
People have a right to be rubes, people have a right to be ignorant, people have the right to be naive. We can do what we can to lead the people for the betterment of all but I dont think shaming them with 'therapy' does anything. We all need therapy. We all need support and guidance.
There is nothing unique about these people putting their dick in the m&m minis tube. And by god Ill defend their right to do it.
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Can't wait until AI manipulates people into harming others.
Also psychological warfare.
Obvious /s
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