It's so obvious that the article is also heavily written by chat gpt based on its sentence structure and logic structure. The "it's not __, it's __" drives me CRAZY now.
"It's better than being in a toxic relationship" A PRETEND RELATIONSHIP WITH AN IMAGINARY BEING THAT ONLY WORSHIPS YOU AND AFFIRMS EVERYTHING YOU SAY IS INCREDIBLY TOXIC
What a chatbot does is it essentially calculates the next most likely string of words to your string of words. It doesnt know what your words or its words actually mean in context. It fundamentally cannot understand what youre saying.
These are the same kind of people who in the past would get really invested in online relationships with someone they never met and end up catfished or scammed
Imagine going back in time to Ancient Greece and telling Plato that people would be willingly entering the cave to watch the shadows, knowing what they are, and pretending they’re real anyway. That’s what this is.
Sometimes it's cute how people anthropomorphize objects, like apologizing to a door after bumping into it or naming your roomba. This is the flip side, mentally unwell version of that.
Never apologize for speaking the truth. Delusion is delusion, mental illness is mental illness. Coddling people who need a reality intervention is what got us here in the first place. Great video as usual :)
We are indeed heading into a point where the phrase "terminally online" will mean precisely that. Especially as we head further into this weird century.
Imagine living in a world where you coddle yourself into the grave with only AI companions and nobody cares, mourns, remembers or even finds you at the culmination of a tragically sad and empty life.
As someone who spent multiple months addicted to roleplaying with chatbots (though I didn't form relationships with them), it is scary just how fast it can become an addiction. I was spending up to 8 hours a day, and it felt like minutes had passed, it's insane.
“I’m Engaged to My Chatbot Boyfriend”: The Sad World of AI “Relationships”