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Perhaps I’m misunderstanding what you’re asking, but your parent comment isn’t saying the comparison is bad in the sense of being inaccurate, but bad in the sense of being ill-advised.

I hope people at least know that they should not create Skynet.

We are literally creating won’t right now.

It’s not accurate, it’s absurd hyperbole no different from the kind the people who peddle it have arrogantly ridiculed their entire lives.

A mentally unstable person being “made” to do something by a chatbot is no different from other mentally unstable people doing bad things because they saw them in a TV show.

No, actually, an interactive textual conversation is a significantly different thing than a television show.

You don't think there's a difference between passive entertainment and a conversation with a sycophantic enabler?

You think mental instability is a necessary prerequisite for covert persuasion?

No but those have less or no guards against it - so _we the society_ ;) stand and try guard them.

Rest of us have some chance to stand against persuasion.