This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.
Teenagers aren't stupid. They're playing around and masturbating. They know it's not real and they still want to touch each other.
Call me when sexbots are here.
Just because you know it's not real doesn't mean you can't become attached to it.
That's literally like half of marriages.
Teenagers aren't stupid.
You sure? Even the president is stupid.
The president isn’t a teenager, and as a sociopath wouldn’t have been representative of teenagers even when he was one.
I would expect the teenage years to be where most people's sociopathy peaks before trailing off as they continue to mature emotionally.
It will be fine for most kids who try it and really harmful for a minority of them
Please also call me when the sexbots are here. I'd like to preorder if possible.
I can only imagine how insidious this is going to turn in the future. People will undoubtedly use this technology to violate humans in ways we have never even thought of.
Allowing a corporation to control the only thing that person feels love for is a recipe for disaster.
People need connections with other people. This is the antitheses to this need.
Young people are reporting epidemic levels of loneliness, and some are turning to technology to fill the void.
Bruh, technology is causing the void. People are increasingly using technology to replace human interaction, rather than to cultivate it.
Social media was a mistake.
And yes, I'm aware of the irony as I use social media to say so. I do not apologize.
I'm not so sure. Facebook was a great tool to create local communities at first. Then it became greedy and changed the algorithm for ads and being attention driven. If you remove facebook (which I don't use since months), it's harder to find what's new around you, and get out to cool events. Especially on the countryside.
That's precisely why it was a mistake. People did those things before Facebook, but now? So many people have no clue how to exist without it, and all the while, it's weaponized against people's ignorance by bad actors who are greedy for power and money.
Hell, we've had to create decentralized tools just to get some of our agency back. And yet, even knowing that their data is fodder for those same bad actors, people still flock to those previous systems like Facebook, TikTok, Xitter, and Instagram.
Social media isn't a mistake because social media is inherently bad. It's a mistake, because humans in general are too stupid to protect themselves.
No, people didn't do such things before, I disagree. People got out, of course, but it had greatly increased market view for events, because random people around could get the information. Before that, it was just displays on the walls, local newspapers, etc, but the potential viewers are way less.
Turns out unfettered greed turns everything it touches to shit.
Also, humans in general are dumb. But moreso your thing.
It was all about "fun" in the days of MySpace and Digg and early-Reddit. That damn cat wanted a damn cheeseburger and we all laughed about it.
Then it became all about politics. And people would go to any lengths to ensure that "their" politics "won" on social media. We went from people having fleets of alt accounts, to fleets of bots, to just having AI spread and upvote propaganda.
So, it's all just gross now. I want my goddamn Geocities & Yahoo! Towers back.
If it weren’t for social media, humanity would find another technology to lie and manipulate people for money and power.
Money and Power are what corrupts, not technology
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Very astute observation. Bravo.
I honestly think social media and internet subculture would be fine if it weren't soured by moneyed interests
If work wasn't so alienating and all-encompassing and we weren't so stressed and insecure in our material conditions, then we wouldnt run to social media as an escape. If wasn't also so rife with consumerist culture and advertisements it wouldnt be so corrosive. Maybe then we could use it to create communities that mirror and bridge into irl spaces and create meaningful relationships.
Instead, the entire network has been constructed around a capitalist organization and it only serves to make us more miserable.
I don’t know who needs to hear this but a computer can’t love you. Get a cat or dog.
I don’t know who needs to hear this but a cat can’t love you.
(I have a cat overlord)
I can't help but wonder how many of the Reddit users that articles like this use for quotes, data, etc. are actually AI profiles themselves.
Like the internet's already dead and it's just the AI leading the AI and that's why everything feels weird
If that AI companion isn’t on your own hardware, it will likely require a subscription eventually. And running an AI agent yourself isn’t cheap.
Not your hardware, not your girlfriend.
Oh that's dark
Would you trust an Ai that's only dating you for the subscription?
Usually that's how therapists work and people trust then
My therapist ran on a 1080 ti... Much cheaper and did not involve insurance.
I wouldn't trust a self hosted AI that I trained myself.
broke into Windsor Castle with a crossbow, saying that he was going to kill the queen
Uhm, she's dead already.
That's the best no context quote of the year so far.
It's a fad, and once people realize how shallow it is they will drop it like an old toy.
More like pog
As someone who is shit with dealing with relationships, I get the appeal, I really do.
Problem is we don't have a Lucy Liubot yet, so we are yet again let down by our poor quality technology.
But when they do…
So if you get a bot companion… it’s perfect and it loves you unconditionally as much as a robot can but eventually you get bored and decide to upgrade… proving you were the shallow one all along.
Or maybe it proves no one actually believes that’s love which means they will never be truly fulfilled with a artificial replacement.
Ah, so AI will kill off humanity. Not with a terminator but as a sex chat bot, leaving people unable to interact normally with other humans. No more human children!
Everybody thinking they can do better, so there's a sense of entitlement from both sexes.
Also one bad trait is overshadowing all the good traits, hence the stand off, and the constant complaints on social media.
