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

submitted 5 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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[–] Karjalan@lemmy.world 7 points 5 days ago (1 children)

It would be interesting to see studies on this, but to me this screams of the next iteration of "drugs/heavy metal/video games/magazines are destroying society" that comes up every 5 to 10 years.

Some people, with a particular disposition, will have it take over their life, and that's still shitty. But it's not like everyone will just be like "guess I don't need friends anymore". Just like places that legalise drugs don't suddenly see everyone doing drugs.

Fwiw I still think AI and these types of apps are terrible... But the title sounds very clickbait sensational

[–] lordnikon@lemmy.world 2 points 5 days ago

maybe but i think social media is the problem and the slot machine effect of algorithm systems built using physiological techniques to keep people engaged at any cost. Ai chat bots are just an extension of that turned up to 11.