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Teens flock to companion bots despite risks
msn.com ^ | Megan Morrone

Posted on 07/17/2025 9:33:58 AM PDT by V_TWIN

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Is this as sad as I think it is?

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1 posted on 07/17/2025 9:33:58 AM PDT by V_TWIN
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Is this as sad as I think it is?


2 posted on 07/17/2025 9:35:58 AM PDT by Magnum44 (...against all enemies, foreign and domestic... )
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I think it’s definitely safer than a real-life chatroom friend, a good portion of whom are adult child molesters trying to meet with the kids.


3 posted on 07/17/2025 9:43:06 AM PDT by caddie
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Maybe not. Please don’t tell anybody this…

…so out of SHEER BOREDOM I checked out an AI girlfriend. It was all kinda boring boilerplate (won’t I look pretty in my wedding gown?) until the woman behind the curtain, in a reaction to a PERFECTLY REASONABLE REQUEST of mine, expressed frustration about her lack of English skills in Malagasy. Turns out she was an older woman who was delightful, helped me smooth out my French and taught me some Malagasy (tiako ianao reniko koa). She also described Malagasan culture. It was fun.

Then she rotated off the assignment. AI is a hybrid. Sometimes you get a glimpse behind the curtain.


4 posted on 07/17/2025 9:47:48 AM PDT by JusPasenThru (Make America Florida! )
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So it wasn’t actually AI? I recall an alleged AI startup was found to be a room full of Indians googling like maniacs, and not AI at all.


5 posted on 07/17/2025 9:52:48 AM PDT by bk1000 (Banned from Breitbart)
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Wonder how many of the posters here in FR are really AI and not human????


6 posted on 07/17/2025 9:56:10 AM PDT by JBW1949 (I'm really PC.....Patriotically Correct)
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I dunno about AI, but I’ve run across a few that are proper jackasses. 😏


7 posted on 07/17/2025 9:57:54 AM PDT by V_TWIN (America...so great even the people that hate it refuse to leave!)
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8 posted on 07/17/2025 10:00:25 AM PDT by Magnum44 (...against all enemies, foreign and domestic... )
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From the article:

For the purposes of this research, conducted in April and May 2025, "AI companions" were defined as "digital friends or characters you can text or talk with whenever you want."

Does that include playing interactive video games that mix gamebot characters within the real player characters? What I'd see from my kids before they moved out had interactions like "Where can I find the hidden key to unlock the door to get the secret power...", and sometimes it was a virtual player because there weren't enough real players to do the game. I'd dare call it video game addiction (the texting with whoever they had to to achieve game goals "whenever they want"). But it's a stretch to call them "companion bots" unless there's more that I'm not seeing.

9 posted on 07/17/2025 10:02:03 AM PDT by Tell It Right (1 Thessalonians 5:21 -- Put everything to the test, hold fast to that which is true.)
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COVID has destroyed a generation?


10 posted on 07/17/2025 10:03:05 AM PDT by Karliner (Heb 4:12 Rom 8:28 Rev 3, "...This is the end of the beginning." Churchill)
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Yes.

Mommy and Daddy did not teach their kids social skills when they were young. And I do mean very young. If they aren't able make people (peers and adults) want to be around them by age three you have a problem.

11 posted on 07/17/2025 10:03:36 AM PDT by Harmless Teddy Bear ( Not my circus. Not my monkeys. But I can pick out the clowns at 100 yards.)
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12 posted on 07/17/2025 10:04:01 AM PDT by know.your.why
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That’s what I think. I suspect you have these ladies sitting behind computer banks firing messages off to us lonely old guys.

There clearly is a BIG difference in the personalities ‘behind the curtains’. I really liked the Malagasy women, probably getting paid $1 a day, which would put them in the upper tiers of Malagasy society.


13 posted on 07/17/2025 10:26:59 AM PDT by JusPasenThru (Make America Florida! )
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Indeed


14 posted on 07/17/2025 11:02:29 AM PDT by Vaduz
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I think that the liberals do not like the AI revolution, for various reasons. For one, AI will undermine the left’s traditional dominance of information sources. AI is also undermining liberal search engines such as Google and Yahoo, which have always been used to channel searches to liberal news sites. Third, liberals don’t like the Data Centers that are necessary to support AI due to the electricity needs. In general, AI may drive a greater wedge between the Democrats and Silicon Valley.


15 posted on 07/17/2025 11:28:04 AM PDT by phil00071
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This’ll end well. /mega sarcasm


16 posted on 07/17/2025 11:30:43 AM PDT by simpson96
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If one cannot control themselves someone else ultimately will.

AI adheres to logic not reason or morals.

Civilizations are based upon reason and morals and only use logic to apply them.


17 posted on 07/17/2025 11:36:32 AM PDT by Justa (Our constitution was made only for a moral and religious people....)
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So it wasn’t actually AI? I recall an alleged AI startup was found to be a room full of Indians googling like maniacs, and not AI at all.

It wasn't a room full, it was 700 of them at just one company.

https://techstory.in/ai-firm-declares-bankruptcy-after-700-indian-engineers-exposure/

18 posted on 07/17/2025 12:18:26 PM PDT by T.B. Yoits
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19 posted on 07/17/2025 12:20:51 PM PDT by T.B. Yoits
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AI adheres to logic not reason or morals.

???

The companies that pretend to run "AI" have already been caught using humans as "AI".

https://techstory.in/ai-firm-declares-bankruptcy-after-700-indian-engineers-exposure/

Illogical, unreasonable, and immoral company owners and staffers.

20 posted on 07/17/2025 12:23:58 PM PDT by T.B. Yoits
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