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There's a lot of harmful stuff already in the world, but most of us would rather not add to the pile on an industrial scale.

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I for one think consenting adults should be able to do mildly harmful things like waste their time/money on a fake girlfriend if they so choose, and find it offensive that others would try to impose their values on others by restricting them from doing so

Nobody's restricting anything, we're discussing someone choosing not to work for a particular company.

I agree. I don’t care for and actually dislike most “features“ of AI including and especially chat bots but it’s also none of my business to go and stand on the soap box of my own subjective morality to tell others how to live. If you don’t want people ruining their lives over this, go after root causes not this piddly shit.

How do you know having an AI girlfriend is only mildly harmful? No one has ever had one before.

Supposedly plenty have already, although I don't think anyone's studied it clinically https://knowyourmeme.com/news/replika-ai-shuts-down-erotic-r...

I’m talking more about potential “Her”-like AI partners (the movie). Ones that would be a much more compelling replacement for actual human relationships.

We might want to be a little cautious about blindly going down that path. The tech isn’t there yet, and probably won’t be there next year, but it feels far more possible than ever before.

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