Having a pet yes-man is going to turn so many adults into entitled children. It's already a pain in the arse dealing with most people, I cannot fathom how unpleasant it's going to be in 10 years.
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yeah that's what we want a companion that tells us everything we want to hear with its only goal to keep us engaged to the platform. i just picture it now your having a conversation with your AI lover and it starts selling you "this new Mococoa drink? All natural cocoa beans from the upper slopes of Mount Nicaragua. No artificial sweeteners." just like in the Truman show. but it will be worse because it won't do it as transparent as that. it will slowly influence you to the wishes of its corporate masters.
you also have a situation where if you dont pay your monthly bill your lover dies. talk about a revenue stream. they will use all the details they learn about you to set the price to as high as you can afford without breakings you.
Yeah, I am not opposed to this because it's unhealthy (that's the user's choice, like smoking). I'm opposed because this is going to become abusive very quickly in the ways you describe. Not to mention the climate impact.
Yeah Musk is already doing that very obviously with Grok. I guess it's the more subtle manipulation that we have to worry about.
Dating an LLM would be like dating a pathological liar.
Literally none of the words it produces have a single unit of honesty. Any true fact produced by Gemini is essentially coincidental, and must be tested and verified before application. I can't imagine a single person who knows how this stuff works being able to consider a "relationship" with one to be "real".
That companies mislead people about this tech to such an extent that they are able to feel there's a "mind" on the other end that is capable of returning their feelings in any shape or form, is beyond predatory.
We should be willing to accept AI-human relationships without judging the people who form them. This follows a general moral principle that most of us already accept: we should respect the choices people make about their intimate lives when those choices don’t harm anyone else.
When those choices don't harm anyone else. The point is that allowing these relationships harm the society. The neoliberal dream that paints people as disconnected individuals is an illusion. If I smoke, even alone in my house, I'm hurting the society. If I decide to have or not have children, I impact the society. If I exercise, I impact positively the society. If I watch a documentary instead of a reality show, I change the impact I have.
I agree that I don’t really want these relationships or to support them.
Some people would argue “promoting homosexual relationships harms the society”, as in “They promote sex that doesn’t procreate.” Or “It’s a sin.” In my opinion, they are wrong, but I’ve probably heard that argument this week (people saying stuff like rainbows in class rooms is homosexual propaganda).
To add to your argument, I would probably point at the specific harms rather than the general notion: (1) bad environment cost, (2) bad for mental health since it promotes narcissism & anti-social behavior, (3) exploitative, (4) anti-privacy, (5) better uses for this tech. I’m sure you can keep going.
You're absolutely right!