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.
Teenagers turning to AI companions are redefining love as easy, unconditional and always there.
Submitted 2 months ago by Cat@ponder.cat to technology@lemmy.world
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Ulrich@feddit.org 2 months ago
Telorand@reddthat.com 2 months 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.
dbkblk@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I’m not so sure. Facebook was a great tool to create local communities at first. Then it became greedy and change 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. Especially on the countryside.
jubilationtcornpone@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
Turns out unfettered greed turns everything it touches to shit.
RxBrad@infosec.pub 2 months ago
It was all about “fun” in the days of MySpace and Digg and early-Reddit. That damn cat wanted a damn cheeseburger and we all laughed about it.
Then it became all about politics. And people would go to any lengths to ensure that “their” politics “won” on social media. We went from people having fleets of alt accounts, to fleets of bots, to just having AI spread and upvote propaganda.
So, it’s all just gross now. I want my goddamn Geocities & Yahoo! Towers back.
TORFdot0@lemmy.world 2 months 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
archomrade@midwest.social 2 months ago
I honestly think social media and internet subculture would be fine if it weren’t soured by moneyed interests
If work wasn’t so alienating and all-encompassing and we weren’t so stressed and insecure in our material conditions, then we wouldnt run to social media as an escape. If wasn’t also so rife with consumerist culture and advertisements it wouldnt be so corrosive. Maybe then we could use it to create communities that mirror and bridge into irl spaces and create meaningful relationships.
Instead, the entire network has been constructed around a capitalist organization and it only serves to make us more miserable.
reiterationstation@lemm.ee 2 months 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 2 months ago
I don’t know who needs to hear this but a cat can’t love you.
Doomsider@lemmy.world 2 months 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.
adespoton@lemmy.ca 2 months 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.
MonkderVierte@lemmy.ml 2 months 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 2 months ago
That’s the best no context quote of the year so far.
postmanbrown@lemm.ee 2 months ago
I can’t help but wonder how many of the Reddit users that articles like this use for quotes, data, etc. are actually AI profiles themselves.
Like the internet’s already dead and it’s just the AI leading the AI and that’s why everything feels weird
Zero22xx@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 months ago
kingblaaak@lemmy.world 2 months 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.
Evotech@lemmy.world 2 months ago
It’s a fad, and once people realize how shallow it is they will drop it like an old toy.
DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 2 months ago
- Genona Smith, 1993, on video games.
Evotech@lemmy.world 2 months ago
More like pog
frezik@midwest.social 2 months ago
I believe there was a documentary about this.
magnus@lemmy.ahall.se 2 months ago
Ah, so AI will kill off humanity. Not with a terminator but as a sex chat bot, leaving people unable to interact normally with other humans. No more human children!
bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 2 months 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.
catloaf@lemm.ee 2 months ago
Just because you know it’s not real doesn’t mean you can’t become attached to it.
Allonzee@lemmy.world 2 months ago
That’s literally like half of marriages.
reiterationstation@lemm.ee 2 months ago
You sure? Even the president is stupid.
adespoton@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
The president isn’t a teenager, and as a sociopath wouldn’t have been representative of teenagers even when he was one.
sem@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 months ago
It will be fine for most kids who try it and really harmful for a minority of them
surewhynotlem@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Please also call me when the sexbots are here. I’d like to preorder if possible.