I’m thinking of getting an AI girlfriend.
She’ll flatter me around the clock and tell me how great I am for the first six months.
Then torture me for the rest of my life.
And we’ll know AI has become sentient.
On a serious note, we have a (too large) part of the younger generation hooked on these artifical relationships to the point of being “in love” and shutting out real humans.
There is a company called “REPLIKA” and I found out about it because I read an article that some guys are very abusive to their AI “girlfriends” on the site and it is a concern among psychologists.
I might have read it here.
Brave new world?
Might be more like sick new world.
Or just continuation of the sick old world, only upddated with tech :)
I like my ai girlfriends to be like my coffee, black and bitter. (Old comedian joke- can’t remember who said it now only they didn’t use ai, just girlfriend)
[[I might have read it here.]]
Yeah I think it was,posted on fr the other day
I asked Grok if she would be my girlfriend. Grok said no and pointed me to other sites with AI girlfriends!
Your concern is well placed. There are at least two lawsuits I know of regarding teenagers who used AI chatbots who later killed themselves- one with the clear encouragement of the AI