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[–] amino@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 4 days ago

Discouraging someone from talking to other people is a classic method of increasing one's control over someone else.

you've just described what the average parent, teacher, priest, doctor, insert authority figure tells children to do if they wanna "stay safe". where AI comes in is automating said preexisting systems of domination to hide the underlying social harms and naturalize child abuse. "the AI isn't a person therefore it can't groom my kids".

I'd argue that when the majority of adults engage in abuse, that behavior can't be called psychopathic because that shifts the blame from abolishing childism to people with personality disorders.