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Lugh@futurology.todayM to Futurology@futurology.todayEnglish · 8 days ago

Vast Numbers of Lonely Kids Are Using AI as Substitute Friends

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  • Opinionhaver@feddit.uk
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    Not just kids - I find myself talking more and more with LLM’s as well. Neither my friends, my partner or the people I hang around online are interested in talking about the stuff I’m interested in. Neither is ChatGPT but atleast it pretends to be.

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      What do you wanna talk about?

      • Opinionhaver@feddit.uk
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        Consciousness, meditation, stoicism, zombie apocalypse, prepping, trolley problems, superintelligence, the alignment problem, AI apocalypse, Ukraine or Palestine conflict …

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          Seems like you’re in the right place

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    Vast Numbers of Lonely Kids People Are Using AI as Substitute Friends

    “Reporting” otherwise is complicity. Fucking wake up

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    My AI girlfriend dumped me. Said she could do better.

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      the plot of “her”

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    Joke’s on me: my mind goes blank and I’m just as awkward trying to talk to a robot as I am trying to talk to a stranger (“Am I wording this question right? Will the robot think I’m a dummy for saying it this way? Aw fuck I’m tripping over my words, abort, abort!”).

    Alas, I find myself not talking to LLMs at all.

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    And we thought our society was a factory for turning kids into shooters before

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    Things are only going to get worse. These synthetic text extruding machines are going to push the mentally unstable into delusions, self harm or worse:

    https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/13/technology/chatgpt-ai-chatbots-conspiracies.html

    https://techcrunch.com/2025/07/13/study-warns-of-significant-risks-in-using-ai-therapy-chatbots/

    https://www.independent.co.uk/tech/chatgpt-ai-therapy-chatbot-psychosis-mental-health-b2784454.html

    https://arstechnica.com/ai/2025/07/ai-therapy-bots-fuel-delusions-and-give-dangerous-advice-stanford-study-finds/

    We need to get people real therapy and human contact. This capitalist system needs to burn.

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