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To some degree there’s something like this happening. The old saying “pics or it didn’t happen” used to mean young people needed to take their phones out for everything.

Now any photo can be faked, so the only photos to take are ones that you want yourself for memories.

That's not what that saying means/meant.

Naww.... people have always taken the easy path and put off confronting difficult feelings and emotions. The vast majority of humanity will 100% spend hours a day swiping through computer generated content in the future. Whats the difference between a tiktok video featuring some vapid real person I will never know vs some vapid machine generated person I will never know. They both serve the same purpose.

What's more likely is that a significant number of people will start having most/all of their meaningful interactions with AI instead of with other people.

What a nice thought :)

lol if they don't put the phone down now, then how can AI generated content specifically optimized to get people to stay be any better.