You mean the LLMs with “personality” programmed into them for no other reason than to foster a parasocial relationship that increases user retention are causing people to become lonely? No fucking way

Isn’t it a “cause and effect” case? Those who “have fewer real-life relationships” are expectably more “engage emotionally with bot”?

I can’t see any reason to “engage emotionally with bot” if I just need some information because I’m too lazy to read the documentation. But people who come for “emotional engage”… well, they “emotional engage”.

Yeah stop chating with your chatgpt girl friend and find real one.

I personally would feel even more lonely if my only ‘friend’ was a computer program that can never actually care about me.

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