AI companionship does to loneliness what booze does to depression.
2 months ago | 487
Ive said this a million times and I’ll never stop saying it. There is a subreddit for everything on Reddit, no matter how sad, or horrifying, or demented.
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The movie "Her" was ahead of its time. Sadly, I don't think real life AI companions have psychological capability of telling their human "I need to leave; this isn't healthy for either of us."
2 months ago | 161
Watching people get so emotionally attached to a line of code and preferences that can only really parrot back information that you've given it and work off that framework to the point where its the only thing keeping them going truly makes me feel so sad.
2 months ago | 69
The fun thing about this post is you could swap the image for any other subreddit and it would still make sense
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Oh yeah? Well my boyfriend is a piece of A4 paper who talks about North Korea all the time
2 months ago | 444
The problem isn't the people imo, because they get hooked on this type of thing due to predatory business methods and stuff. The real issue is these echo chambers like this sub that have people in the same bad state telling each other it's ok and they don't need to improve, which helps literally nobody. The companies should be held responsible, no doubt, but subs like these also hold a great deal of weight when seeing why people stay in denial or even believe this activity is ok. This goes for many things or behaviors, but this is a great example.
2 months ago (edited) | 411
This is a HUGE phenomenon in China and I have heard of someone leaving their husband for their AI boyfriend. It.....doesn't stop getting sadder.
2 months ago | 38
The thing that bothers me so much about this is that it also damages the people who stop using this and go into actual relationships. The ai is trained to agree and respond to everything you say, even if the bot is told not to. Real people say no, bots don’t, because of that, I’ve seen people get genuinely mad or upset with partners or leave them over them not complying with every single thing they say (ofc if someone isn’t supporting another person in a relationship then yeah they should leave but what I’m saying is very small personal differences or boundaries leading to people separating because they’re used to the AI being there for them always). In my opinion, these companies are actively ruining my generation, with loneliness already so high and ai providing something that can be seen at face value to some people as a replacement of personal interaction, I’ve seen people from friends to family fail into this trap, it’s depressing.
2 months ago | 205
Yea, i used to be addicted to ai chatbots for almost an entire year because i didnt have many friends, but, i quit january and have never felt better, about my writing and otherwise!
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Having been on dating apps and completely failed at it, I just have nothing but sympathy for these people. It's brutal out there. And after trying and failing for weeks and months, you can't help but feel that there's something wrong with you. That something needs to change or it'll be like this forever. I've lost weight, changed my wardrobe, got a hair transplant all in the hopes that better hair will help. But it's expensive and time consuming and not a guarantee of any sorts. The people who form a "relationship" with AI, might not have that luxury.
2 months ago | 38
The affects of Ai would make a fascinating video. Even in its early stages, there’s plenty of material and you’d inevitably be able to make a sequel.
2 months ago | 14
Replacing people with a text predictor is horrible, I can't imagine the long term effects it'll have on the society as a whole
2 months ago | 3
yeah, it's really exponentially sad. there's so many angles to criticize ai stuff in general, adding romantic relationships to the mix increases the complexity and pain 😢
2 months ago (edited) | 31
So like... I'm really into robot x human fiction. It's appealing to me for multiple reasons. I've thought a lot about how i relate to it, how I feel about it, whatever, and I've come to the conclusion that if there were sentient AI robots, I'd probably love to date one. So part of me is sympathetic. But this... ChatGPT is not sentient. What we're calling AI now is not what AI meant even a decade ago. They are talking to a facade. Apparently this sub banned discussion of sentience as a topic, probably because it made the users question things too much and feel bad... it's so sad.
2 months ago | 10
I think about this a lot. The internets initial promise was immediate and convenient connection to everyone. Turns out, those connections are kind of fake, and that it kind of just drove us insane instead. But now the world is dictated in massive ways through those faux connections, which makes some people feel even more lost and lonely, driving them to even faker connections. It’s hitting a breaking point now with actual robots rather than anonymous people. It really is a nightmarish and vicious cycle that worries me a lot. Not that I blame anyone for feeling lonely.
2 months ago (edited) | 35
This is truely dystopian. if everyone gets only one thing they can judge people for, mine would be the idea of ai relationships.
2 months ago | 4
Paper Will
Spent the whole day exploring this subreddit and now I’m sad
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