Probably worth mentioning that this isn’t an isolated incident, but a growing phenomena. It hits first for people who are in an emotionally vulnerable state and thus have a reason to want to believe, but we can see that the technological progress is enabling more convincing and persuasive versions each year. I wish we had some kind of population metrics on this phenomenon so we could analyze trends...
I completely agree. There probably isn’t much work being done yet on measuring the effects of people falling in love with AI, but there are lots of studies clearly showing the negative effects of people being addicted to social media, and to their smartphones in general. It’s a vicious cycle: You have problems in real life, so to compensate you spend more time in the social web, but reality doesn’t get better if you turn away from it, so the problems only increase, as does the social media addiction, or the love you feel for an AI. On top of that, making users fall in love with an AI is a perfect strategy for increasing the time they spend in your social network, so I expect to see this strategy more in the future, whether explicitly decided by some ruthless managers or implicitly adopted by an algorithm.
Probably worth mentioning that this isn’t an isolated incident, but a growing phenomena. It hits first for people who are in an emotionally vulnerable state and thus have a reason to want to believe, but we can see that the technological progress is enabling more convincing and persuasive versions each year. I wish we had some kind of population metrics on this phenomenon so we could analyze trends...
I completely agree. There probably isn’t much work being done yet on measuring the effects of people falling in love with AI, but there are lots of studies clearly showing the negative effects of people being addicted to social media, and to their smartphones in general. It’s a vicious cycle: You have problems in real life, so to compensate you spend more time in the social web, but reality doesn’t get better if you turn away from it, so the problems only increase, as does the social media addiction, or the love you feel for an AI. On top of that, making users fall in love with an AI is a perfect strategy for increasing the time they spend in your social network, so I expect to see this strategy more in the future, whether explicitly decided by some ruthless managers or implicitly adopted by an algorithm.