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> I think it's possible that chatbots will help people prepare and refine their relationship skills

By practicing with ai porn bots? Created by the advertising (manipulation) tech giants of the future? How skewed and messed up would your norms be after a while?

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Guess it'd depend on the training data and how the bots act.

"Trash in, trash out" as they say.

The bots could be created with the intention of making human relationships better, not worse. It could call out harmful behavior or point people into better directions, and similar ways.

"No Dave, doing X to your partner might not be appreciated, talk with them about it or may I suggest these alternatives?"

Money rarely follows those that have good intentions. The intentions are rarely even part of the equation there. And as Tinder has already showed us, there’s a lot of money in keeping people lonely, giving them just enough but not too much. Something tells me that the large majority of those building AI companion bots do not have good intentions in mind. Of course, only time will tell, but considering the track record of such topics so far I doubt this is the way to go.

> The bots could be created with the intention of making human relationships better, not worse. It could call out harmful behavior or point people into better directions, and similar ways.

(1) Are those the kind of bots being created?

(2) Are those the kinds of bots that will be commercially successful?

1: https://erichartford.com/meet-samantha

2: ...Nope.

> 2: ...Nope.

Well... shit.

Intentions are useless in this case. What matters are the incentives.

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