901
Help. (mander.xyz)
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

Yes, yes. And yes.

But

Do you think openAI or Google, or X or whatever billionaire behind the AI involved in these "relationships" cares even minimally about the mental well-being of these people?

The problem is not just the dating an AI thing, but who is managing these AIs.

Do you think openAI or Google, or X or whatever billionaire behind the AI involved in these "relationships" cares even minimally about the mental well-being of these people?

No, but I wager neither does anyone else, or they wouldn't be dating a datacenter.

I'm not really sure these people fully understand what they are doing or they wouldn't be doing it at all.

[-] kazerniel@lemmy.world 1 points 11 hours ago

The bizarre thing is, some of them do understand how LLMs work. There was that article about a married woman with an LLM boyfriend. She's very active on Reddit (edit: or at least was until a month ago), and based on her comments I saw back when the article was published, she seems to know perfectly well that it's all just a statistical model of smoke and mirrors, and yet continues with the extreme emotional (and financial) investment 🤷

[-] chocrates@piefed.world 3 points 1 day ago

Oh totally agree. This is a corporation problem.

this post was submitted on 14 Aug 2025
901 points (98.6% liked)

Science Memes

16250 readers
2973 users here now

Welcome to c/science_memes @ Mander.xyz!

A place for majestic STEMLORD peacocking, as well as memes about the realities of working in a lab.



Rules

  1. Don't throw mud. Behave like an intellectual and remember the human.
  2. Keep it rooted (on topic).
  3. No spam.
  4. Infographics welcome, get schooled.

This is a science community. We use the Dawkins definition of meme.



Research Committee

Other Mander Communities

Science and Research

Biology and Life Sciences

Physical Sciences

Humanities and Social Sciences

Practical and Applied Sciences

Memes

Miscellaneous

founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS