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[-] TeraByteMarx@lemmy.dbzer0.com 32 points 10 months ago

Yeah but it's nothing scary or new. Was I the only one who watched those documentaries about the people who were emotionally and sexually committed to objects like cars and rollercoasters? Someone married the Eiffel tower. Been extremely isolated at different points in my life watching that stuff changed the way I view people. Like it made me kinder I think.

[-] PolarKraken@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 10 months ago

Completely agree that learning about some of that made me kinder. Don't agree about your reasoning for it not being scary, though.

It's not "new" in the same way that using a computer wasn't new when home PCs were introduced. However - home PCs massively increased the accessibility of computing and resulted in a huge boom in use, including by lots of people who never previously considered it. That's what this is, that increase in accessibility, but for parasocial relationships with inanimate objects.

I'm not dooming so hard that I think society is in trouble via AI faux-mance in particular. But I do think it's sad and troubling that many more people will now accept a (sometimes high) degree of self-imposed isolation, due to misplaced belief in a piece of technology, a false belief which the technology deliberately tries to engender.

And let's remember, human social life is the original "network effect". By that fact, it seems clear that taking more people out of IRL socialization (and replacing it strictly with simulation), is bad even for people who never touch the stuff.

Feels like a big increase in the ongoing general loneliness and atomization of society is headed our way.

[-] bitchkat@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago

You have to admit, Chase was one sexy machine.

[-] krunklom@lemmy.zip 1 points 10 months ago

I want the CN Tower inside me. All of it.

[-] usernameusername@sh.itjust.works 2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

I also remember some guy that had married Hatsune Miku

Edit: https://edition.cnn.com/2018/12/28/health/rise-of-digisexuals-intl

[-] Etterra@discuss.online 1 points 10 months ago

Yes I'm crazy lady married the Berlin Wall. This is different though because the AIs actually talk. Inanimate objects only talk to people with schizophrenia.

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