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AI Friend Apps Are Destroying What’s Left of Society (www.currentaffairs.org)

submitted 3 days ago by Pro@programming.dev to c/Technology@programming.dev

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As they become increasingly isolated, people are treating AI chatbots as friends and even lovers. We have to fix the broken society that made this possible.

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[–] Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Okay so it’s a more complicated Eliza with way, way more pre-programmed statements.

[–] paraphrand@lemmy.world 0 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Yup, infinite, I’d say.

[–] match@pawb.social 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

well, 8 to 64 billion

[–] paraphrand@lemmy.world 1 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Oh? So that’s the max number of combinations of all supported Unicode characters?

Practically infinite is a lame reframing. I’ll admit. But that’s what I want to clarify I mean. And “nearly infinite” makes no sense. Sure.