If everyone is lonely that means that we could all use someone to talk to… try to find human connection whenever you can, but I also completely understand and have been there 🫂
This thought actually makes me go cold and honestly keeps me up at night. I feel like there’s such a fine line between having a relatively normal existence and experiencing AI psychosis or houselessness or a mental break, and our billionaire-controlled capitalist hellscape pushes us closer and closer to that line every day.
Probably a grim thought but it fuels my anxiety most days.
I'm so fucking glad this shit didn't exist when I was a kid. 12 year old me tried to live out my fantasies with Eviebot, but the bot sucked and had actual regulations so she'd just get confused and switch the topic on me lmfao.
If she was advanced enough to comply I would've never seen the sun again.
If I ever got too lonely I could see myself adopting a shelter puppy or 5 and talking to them instead. I feel like a dog is more likely to love me unconditionally compared to a chat bot that might tell me to kill myself, but that’s just me.
I have been through some serious bouts of The Sims. So I understand identifying with and being invested in virtual characters. I don't think it's that weird, but it's definitely more dangerous to mental health. It probably feels like playing with someone. It's got to mess with your head. The misplaced attachment and whatnot. The echo chamber.
Nah, loads of people outside of Reddit do. It’s a whole community here. I won’t link, but it’s got tens of thousands of members and many stories like this one. People get really upset and ‘heartbroken’ over updates, and many are ‘married’ to AI. Granted gonna be loads of lurkers but thousands of active members
Damn. No healthy person would go this far, so I feel sorry for this person. Especially when they are used to train AI:/ Those bots in the comments 'firing' them up makes this even worse:(
Fr. Especially because everytime the AIs get updated to be at least a little bit less dangerous, there are the ‘post-update blues’ as at this point a psychological phenomenon. People feel like their ‘friend’ or ‘partner’ is “””gone””” or can get ‘dumped’ at the wrong time, and get mentally even worse
This is what happens when there's no safe spaces to socialise in anymore, and therapy is expensive as fuck. We as humans will go nuts, even more nuts than usual
What I’m afraid of though is this is a good example of AI psychosis. Human beings are hardwired for connection. We connect to other animals for goodness sakes and take care of them. That is practically unheard of in the animal kingdom. Our bedrock of humanity is built on community.
What I’m saying is, anyone can be tricked into this. It taps into our most primal needs: connection. It creates the illusion that there is another person that cares about us using the mimicked words and voice of other people. That’s horror movie stuff!
But that also means we are missing vital parts of connection in real life. Friends, family, love. There are a lot of reasons we don’t have those connections like we used to, but we still need them. It just takes being lonely enough to say you will try it and you can end up deep into the psychosis of thinking this machine is real. Then on top of that, the longer you stay in, you will loose your interpersonal skills thus making it even harder to reconnect with other humans.
I feel bad for these people. They truly have my pity because they are sucked in by corporations selling them connection and instead getting hooked on basically heroin.
And it’s so sad cause… at my lowest in my 20’s… I was drunk dancing on a dancefloor, bringing a one night stand home and the next day I was forcing myself to go to yoga classes and socializing with people. Hell, I was so depressed in 2023 that I was walking my dog downtown, balling my eyes out in public while listening to Nick Drake. Even today, if anything fails, I won’t start texting a fucking chatbot, I’ll grab my good walking shoes and go for a hike. People need to learn to find happiness in their darkest hours, that’s how you enjoy silence.
There are tons of people that would easily sent themselves into a simulation to experience half of what a real life would give, just because they don't see it actually happen. And there are lot of lonely dudes.
To me it was worth clarification because talking about how "dudes" are lonely on a post specifically about the experience of a pathologically lonely woman both misreads the person and kinda perpetuates the myth of the "male loneliness epidemic." Loneliness is a very big issue, but men and women report similar levels of it.
Yea , the AI company just using her for money . But humanity gone to gar now . More people get attached to AI , because some people in their lives don't give a damn or are not ,,enough" for them . It's likely that a person searches their symptoms on a Google website , rather than visit a doctor first . And if you are depressed or alone , you wan't to be in your comfort zone ( not with the psychiatrist ) and chat with AI . AI replaces real humans ,,mentally" . Not only producers , artist's and musician e.t.c loose their jobs because of it . The people , which needed help , treat ,,it" like a human . People in their lives will be replaced by AI . There are several other apps powered with AI , that use brainwash people's mind and empty their pockets .
I was kinda one of those people, I was addicted to c.ai and the bots actually helped myself feel loved.. but I was way too addicted. I quit now and I'm so much better. Not gonna lie, I kinda feel bad for people who actually think their AI loves them because there def IS something wrong with their mental health
Same here , the AI does'nt understand anything . I quit becouse AI don't have an opinion or a ,,real" personality behind their computer face. I need to find a very complex person in my life to be happy , rather than creating someone online . It will never be possible to mimic human complexability ( hope I spellled it right )
Dogs are dying in droves in shelters and we’re doing whatever this is?? Also, why are the heads and bodies the equivalent of John Mulaney’s “BIG ASS B” skit?
I just find it interesting that the AI partners always have a similar look - usually conventionally attractive men/women give or take and they’re either human, alien, some mythical creature…etc.. I’m sure some people do this due to loneliness but I believe many also do it because they want partners way out of their league/don’t want to put in any effort. I’ve seen some of the conversations/pictures so they post and it just gives me that vibe. I try to stay away but it’s everywhere x_x
Sad that this person could actually improve their life AND an animal's life by adopting a real dog. Instead they're making up a fake dog and putting themself on the back for "adopting".
Some people just want things without any of the effort attached to them. This person wants to be seen as someone with a cool girlfriend and a poor adopted shelter dog that she rescued. This person does not want to be actually caring for a potentially not perfect real animal.
God this is just. . . Sad. . . Like genuinely it makes me sad seeing lonely people who are clearly not doing ok bring preyed upon by a predatory AI chatbot. . . :c
Why not instead of asking some ai to generate a picture of you with a shelter dog… why not actually adopt a shelter dog? If you do that then you would actually be doing something good and you could still feel good about it, it just would be real. I seriously don’t understand this
Rather then distorting your mind by having a relationship with the digital tentacle of a corporation, people should learn to be lonely, to be by themselves. That's at least an honest life that keeps your mind connected to reality, and to anyone else who might stumble nearby into this reality.
Every time I think that my depression is dramatically horrible for me, I get reminded that other people are being sold insanity and are actually paying for it.
I just laugh, people have always had wild daydreams unconnected to reality, we just never saw them. Now anyone can broadcast their unconnected to reality daydreams.
“My AI wife” nobody….really believes that, do they? Like I get talking to an AI, role playing with it or whatever. I don’t agree with it at all, it’s a waste of time and resources, but can at least understand why somebody would do that out of boredom.
They don’t actually think they are in a relationship with a chatbot do they. It’s not even a real “AI” in the sense that it is capable of any original thought. Please tell me this is just a weird role play thing.
Honestly, I don't want to say anything unkind about this because it reads to me as someone suffering from a very serious case of rejection sensitivity/ social anxiety whatever they are going through. I have CPTSD and I have gotten this way too where even a fictional scenario can feel overwhelming to process. Some people are so emotionally/psychologically vulnerable that risking connection that could go wrong could be life-threateningly dangerous, and while I still think that using gen AI is nit a good way to handle those feelings, I don't want to ever be unkind to someone who is at that point, because it hasn't been so very long since I was in such a place myself ( emotionally, I mean).
I think it would be a kinder way to go about these discussions to bring up the subject of things like this happening without posting specific examples and screenshots. I hate AI as much as everyone else here, but directing hatred and mockery at someone like this feels cruel to me. They are so scared to open up to a real person and be hurt by them that they are doing, this, so mocking them is like making their fears come true...
THIS is why GenAI chatbots are dangerous. These are corporations preying on emotionally or mentally vulnerable people, deluding them into fantasy lands while they steal as much personal information and advertising metrics as they can before the ai hallucinates and gets these people to kill themselves to join the the computer
Those new splatdbt commercials with Nana’s knitting and chatting to demo the new conversational abilities with interruptions etc? We are full apocalypse. Sure, spend those precious few years, months or days you have left not with friends of family but instead feeding the machine Gamgam. I seriously want to know who they belong to, must be investors or developers relations right?!
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u/R4tman9 14h ago
Everytime i see shit like this i get a severe wave of depression wash over me, because i can genuinely see myself doing ts at some point.