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Google offers bargain: Sell your soul to Gemini, and it'll give you smarter answers
(www.theregister.com)
this post was submitted on 15 Jan 2026
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I'm sure that'll be a tiered pay option soon enough. $10 a month gets you an ai that's just an acquaintance. Doesn't "care", forgets your name sometimes, doesn't remember that thing you talked about last week. $50 a month gets you your ai best friend. It "cares", remembers everything about you, makes suggestions based on what it knows about you, even goes out of it's way to prompt you first and ask you how your dentist appt went.
In my opinion ai is in the "drug dealer wandering around the club giving a free bump" phase. Once people get addicted and sew it into the fabric of every day life, these companies will up the price, make the cheaper tiers too frustrating to use, and charge up the ass. "Oh, you've got an ai boyfriend? Let's see how much you'll pay to keep it or have it lobotomized."
Yeah, I described this more in another reply. And the more I described what I would want from an ai assistant the more it made me realize how bad it would be for society.
No it has been implemented long ago