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[-] MonkderVierte@lemmy.ml 5 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago)

broke into Windsor Castle with a crossbow, saying that he was going to kill the queen

Uhm, she's dead already.

[-] Croquette@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 hours ago

That's the best no context quote of the year so far.

[-] Doomsider@lemmy.world 16 points 7 hours ago

I can only imagine how insidious this is going to turn in the future. People will undoubtedly use this technology to violate humans in ways we have never even thought of.

Allowing a corporation to control the only thing that person feels love for is a recipe for disaster.

People need connections with other people. This is the antitheses to this need.

[-] Zero22xx 6 points 8 hours ago
[-] adespoton@lemmy.ca 14 points 14 hours ago

If that AI companion isn’t on your own hardware, it will likely require a subscription eventually. And running an AI agent yourself isn’t cheap.

[-] reiterationstation@lemm.ee 25 points 17 hours ago

I don’t know who needs to hear this but a computer can’t love you. Get a cat or dog.

[-] Krompus@lemmy.world 16 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago)

I don’t know who needs to hear this but a cat can’t love you.

(I have a cat overlord)

[-] Ulrich@feddit.org 41 points 21 hours ago

Young people are reporting epidemic levels of loneliness, and some are turning to technology to fill the void.

Bruh, technology is causing the void. People are increasingly using technology to replace human interaction, rather than to cultivate it.

[-] Telorand@reddthat.com 23 points 19 hours ago

Social media was a mistake.

And yes, I'm aware of the irony as I use social media to say so. I do not apologize.

[-] TORFdot0@lemmy.world 1 points 1 hour ago

If it weren’t for social media, humanity would find another technology to lie and manipulate people for money and power.

Money and Power are what corrupts, not technology

[-] dbkblk@lemmy.world 10 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago)

I'm not so sure. Facebook was a great tool to create local communities at first. Then it became greedy and changed the algorithm for ads and being attention driven. If you remove facebook (which I don't use since months), it's harder to find what's new around you, and get out to cool events. Especially on the countryside.

[-] Telorand@reddthat.com 5 points 2 hours ago

That's precisely why it was a mistake. People did those things before Facebook, but now? So many people have no clue how to exist without it, and all the while, it's weaponized against people's ignorance by bad actors who are greedy for power and money.

Hell, we've had to create decentralized tools just to get some of our agency back. And yet, even knowing that their data is fodder for those same bad actors, people still flock to those previous systems like Facebook, TikTok, Xitter, and Instagram.

Social media isn't a mistake because social media is inherently bad. It's a mistake, because humans in general are too stupid to protect themselves.

[-] dbkblk@lemmy.world 1 points 1 hour ago

No, people didn't do such things before, I disagree. People got out, of course, but it had greatly increased market view for events, because random people around could get the information. Before that, it was just displays on the walls, local newspapers, etc, but the potential viewers are way less.

Turns out unfettered greed turns everything it touches to shit.

[-] Telorand@reddthat.com 7 points 9 hours ago

Also, humans in general are dumb. But moreso your thing.

[-] bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 46 points 22 hours ago

Teenagers aren't stupid. They're playing around and masturbating. They know it's not real and they still want to touch each other.

Call me when sexbots are here.

[-] sem 3 points 1 hour ago

It will be fine for most kids who try it and really harmful for a minority of them

[-] surewhynotlem@lemmy.world 3 points 2 hours ago

Please also call me when the sexbots are here. I'd like to preorder if possible.

[-] reiterationstation@lemm.ee 11 points 17 hours ago

Teenagers aren't stupid.

You sure? Even the president is stupid.

[-] adespoton@lemmy.ca 9 points 14 hours ago

The president isn’t a teenager, and as a sociopath wouldn’t have been representative of teenagers even when he was one.

[-] villainy@lemmy.world 1 points 1 hour ago

I would expect the teenage years to be where most people's sociopathy peaks before trailing off as they continue to mature emotionally.

[-] catloaf@lemm.ee 20 points 21 hours ago

Just because you know it's not real doesn't mean you can't become attached to it.

[-] Allonzee@lemmy.world 5 points 11 hours ago

That's literally like half of marriages.

[-] schizo@forum.uncomfortable.business 19 points 23 hours ago

As someone who is shit with dealing with relationships, I get the appeal, I really do.

Problem is we don't have a Lucy Liubot yet, so we are yet again let down by our poor quality technology.

[-] reiterationstation@lemm.ee 6 points 17 hours ago

So if you get a bot companion… it’s perfect and it loves you unconditionally as much as a robot can but eventually you get bored and decide to upgrade… proving you were the shallow one all along.

Or maybe it proves no one actually believes that’s love which means they will never be truly fulfilled with a artificial replacement.

[-] kingblaaak@lemmy.world 5 points 17 hours ago

Everybody thinking they can do better, so there's a sense of entitlement from both sexes.

Also one bad trait is overshadowing all the good traits, hence the stand off, and the constant complaints on social media.

[-] frezik@midwest.social 3 points 19 hours ago

I believe there was a documentary about this.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cherry_2000

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