Tonight, millions of people will go to bed and whisper to an AI companion. But what are we giving up when we fall in love with machines? Sextech expert Bryony Cole offers three questions to ask yourself if you’re already intimate with AI, laying out a playbook for synthetic companionship that doesn’t hide you from the messiness of human life — but prepares you for it instead.
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Millions? Are AI companions that prevalent?
If that is true then they should be sued out of existence. They know very well their models are not intended to provide that type of companionship. They are toying with peoples lives as some sort of sick experiment without any safety precautions. It is called gross negligence.
Not in my world. I will never dabble in that. Mostly because I don’t know how and don’t want to know how, kinda like I still don’t know what lemon parties and blue waffles are and I know I’m better off not knowing.
Do not go down those rabbit holes, my friend. It’s not worth it. 😆
I sure do know at least enough to know that I don’t want to know about any of it. Another concept in this category is “goatse” 🤷🏼♀️ 😂
I also wish I had never figured out / understood computers & the internet at all. I wish I was addicted to socializing & couldn’t live without constant daily interaction with lots of people. Life would be so much mentally healthier than living through screens.
The feeling of intimacy is totally bogus and the techies have a term for it … RLHF = “Reinforcement learning from human feedback”. Users are training the LLMs to act more human. Can’t get that from stealing copyrighted text from online. And it’s still free !!
