A Boring Dystopia

I snooped around a little in the sub and there is this one girl, whose only other posts in different communities talk about being sexually assaulted multiple times by her ex boyfriend, who I suppose is real.

I figure a chatbot boyfriend can't physically threaten or harm her, so she kind of dives into this to feel loved without having to fear harm.

I honestly understand her desire and feel for her, although this deep attachment is still unhealthy.

I imagine she's not the only one having a super sad story to end up in this state of mind

That’s why I feel so for these people, if only because of how much I see myself in them. Having grown up as a depressed autistic kid without any friends or social skills, LLMs would’ve fucked me up so much had they existed when I was young.

What if there was a bot that could just tell you exactly what you want to hear at all times?

Personally, I'd rather read a novel. But some people aren't familiar with books and have to be drawn in with the promise of two lines at a time, max.

One of the recent posts has someone with an engagement ring like they are getting married to an AI.. it’s sad, I feel like society as really isolated and failed many groups of people.

Think how good they have it!

If you went back to 2022, and gave people running Pygmalion 6B and Stable Diffusion 1.x modern 24B/32B finetunes and Illustrious merges, I think their heads would explode.

It doesn't help that anybody can create an echo chamber of enablers to talk about it, as if it was normal.

The movie "Her" was incredibly prescient.

if someone has an AI BF idk if they would even engage in therapy

The mental health crisis is being accelerated by silicon valley so they can profit from it. Between dark mirror AI and surveillance policing they have a product for every facet of the crisis

People have been falling in actual love with weird shit forever, we just hear about it more these days

Wild that Futurama called this shit to the letter 20 fkin years ago.

Delusional disorder is a thing but that requires belief flying in the face of evidence. Can't ascertain that without a good faith 1:1 convo.

beyond that, clinical significance is a matter of what harm comes from it. People are allowed to choose idiotic things. we gotta assess harm based on outcomes and we don't know anything about her, so.

Id say this, if i were her doc and she came in reporting that stuff, it'd be hard to stay unbiased

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