The commercialization aspect might be what bothers me most. The article is full of people hurt when startups got them hooked on a feeling of intimacy and then took that away. Emotional manipulation for profit is nothing new but LLMs might turbocharge that ability.
Probably, but the ease of using this would probably lure people in that are otherwise able to form social connections and it will inevitably replace at least some of their human connections. I assume you'd agree that the latter case is not good and my presumption is that the latter case vastly outnumbers the former, so this is probably not a good thing in the long run.
> Probably, but the ease of using this would probably lure people in that are otherwise able to form social connections and it will inevitably replace at least some of their human connections. I assume you'd agree that the latter case is not good and my presumption is that the latter case vastly outnumbers the former, so this is probably not a good thing in the long run.
Exactly, and I think that's a case of a general social/psychological problem that technology has been relentlessly hammering.
People evolved to need certain things that unavoidably require work that's not always easy. However, the modern-day technologist's impulse to provide easy but imperfect substitutes ultimately makes people worse off, because it removes the motivating factors that push them to do what they really need to do, leading more and more people to get stuck in pathological states as the chose technology's easy dead-ends.
Probably true, but it feels like the alcohol to heal methanol poisoning.
> I would rather focus on fixing the issues in our world that cause this loneliness than spend time trying to stop these AI companions.
I concur.
> I'm not going to pretend I'm certain my thoughts are correct here.
I'm not going to lie; I'm quite happy that I'm just a random nobody discussing this on a forum instead of actually having to make the heavy decisions. In the end, the technology is already out there and stopping it will be nearly impossible, so we will see where it goes.
Next somebody enters conversation he had with a real human.
Black mirror documentaries.
I could probably use those textes to teach an AI and give it that friends personnality in a way...
Black mirror stuff indeed