• N0body@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    9 days ago

    people tend to become dependent upon AI chatbots when their personal lives are lacking. In other words, the neediest people are developing the deepest parasocial relationship with AI

    Preying on the vulnerable is a feature, not a bug.

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      I kind of see it more as a sign of utter desperation on the human’s part. They lack connection with others at such a high degree that anything similar can serve as a replacement. Kind of reminiscent of Harlow’s experiment with baby monkeys. The videos are interesting from that study but make me feel pretty bad about what we do to nature. Anywho, there you have it.

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        9 days ago

        And the amount of connections and friends the average person has has been in free fall for decades…

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        That utter-desparation is engineered into our civilization.

        What happens when you prevent the “inferiors” from having living-wage, while you pour wallowing-wealth on the executives?

        They have to overwork, to make ends meet, is what, which breaks parenting.

        Then, when you’ve broken parenting for a few generatios, the manufactured ocean-of-attachment-disorder manufactures a plethora of narcissism, which itself produces mass-shootings.

        2024 was down 200 mass-shootings, in the US of A, from the peak of 700/year, to only 500.

        You are seeing engineered eradication of human-worth, for moneyarchy.

        Isn’t ruling-over-the-destruction-of-the-Earth the “greatest thrill-ride there is”?

        We NEED to do objective calibration of the harm that policies & political-forces, & put force against what is actually harming our world’s human-viability.

        Not what the marketing-programs-for-the-special-interest-groups want us acting against, the red herrings…

        They’re getting more vicious, we need to get TF up & begin fighting for our species’ life.

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        a sign of utter desperation on the human’s part.

        Yes it seems to be the same underlying issue that leads some people to throw money at only fans streamers and such like. A complete starvation of personal contact that leads people to willingly live in a fantasy world.

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      9 days ago

      These same people would be dating a body pillow or trying to marry a video game character.

      The issue here isn’t AI, it’s losers using it to replace human contact that they can’t get themselves.