The whole article’s a great read, but here’s a fun excerpt=
To be perfectly blunt, AI girlfriends are not your friends. Although they are marketed as something that will enhance your mental health and well-being, they specialize in delivering dependency, loneliness, and toxicity, all while prying as much data as possible from you.” --Misha Rykov, Researcher @ *Privacy Not Included
Please tell me this isn’t real…people upload their private stuff to talk to their AI “girlfriend”?
First day on the internet?
I’m wondering the same, the people thinking about what they share are a small minority.
This was always the case when it finally got mainstream and it only got worse from there.
I recently went on instagram and Facebook, holy moly do people share a lot. Who the hell cares where you’ve been or had for breakfast
Replika was made with that in mind.
There’s a recent video essay exploring some of the relationship issues with this, and the privacy ones too… The Mozilla article, at first glance, looks at least a little inspired by the Vivek.
Here is an alternative Piped link(s):
There’s a recent video essay
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