Sort of but I think influence over emotional states is understating it and just the tip of the iceberg. It also made it sound passive and accidental. The real problem will be overt control as a logical extension to the kinds of trade offs we already see people make about, for example data privacy. With the Replika fiasco I bet heaps of those people would have paid good money to get their virtual love interests de-“lobotomized”.

Thanks!

Trouble is your statement was in answer to @morrowind@lemmy.ml’s comment that labeling lonely people as losers is problematic.

Also it still looks like you think people can only be lonely as a consequence of their own mistakes? Serious illness, neurodivergence, trauma, refugee status etc can all produce similar effects of loneliness in people who did nothing to “cause” it.

And Hastalavista if you wanted to find things that Altavista didn’t.

That’s really interesting. Its output to this prompt totally ignored the biggest and most obviously detrimental effect of this problem at scale.

Namely, emotional dependence will give AI’s big tech company owners increased power over people.

It’s not as if these concepts aren’t widely discussed online, everything from Meta’s emotional manipulation experiments or Cambridge Analytica through to the meltdowns Replika owners had over changes to the algorithm are relevant here.

Ikr. Doing that with the richest man instead does not seem to have the same effect.

President Dwayne Elizondo Mountain Dew Herbert Camacho will be interested.

New New Internet.

If they were the size of a penis it would just be the male condom with extra steps.

This is my dilemma too! Most of the threads in my instance are politics.

It doesn’t help that I’m actually quite interested in politics.

I just don’t like discussing them online because of the minority of people can’t remain civil.

I would idolize Avasarala if it wasn’t for S1E1.

That would be confusing. I want to be able to tell govt.nz apart from the US one.

Pretty sure they would pick China. Big open spaces, plenty of tech, large population size, consistent leadership.

This and put it on neocities.

Nokia c5-00 and I stil prefer it.

China does this too. I love getting files in this format.