Just have to take a look at subreddits like /r/myboyfriendisai to see how astonishingly quick this is being adopted by people. So many people are starting to look to AI for companionship. The future is getting stranger and stranger.

We're becoming a society divided into people who only care about the words, and people for whom the words aren't valuable on their own without the subtext behind them.

This is true for both AI companionship and general AI creative output regardless of the medium.

How much of sci-fi is reality versus inspiration? This is Her, Deus Ex Machina, Metropolis ... Pygmalion...

So are parasocial relationships with influencers or streamers. I'm not trying to relativize this, but those phenomena are in the same zip code. With the latter, though, at least there are other people who may create a community, but still it's a facet of the loneliness epidemic.

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