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I'm sure the women will be so very sad (midwest.social)

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[–] nifty 1 points 3 months ago (3 children)

This isn’t a bad thing because there are so many lonely people who would benefit from this. But hopefully anyone who has a robot companion (wife, husband etc) isn’t buying it on subscription from Musk or the like because that’s just going to put you in a weird relationships with corpos and it’s not going to be your relationship. Follow the crypto rule, not your keys not your companion.

[–] argoniantradwife 4 points 3 months ago (2 children)

But, like, no. The solution to loneliness is a walkable spaces, third places, better education, etc. not making machines that emulate human speech with no thoughts.

[–] nifty 2 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

Those too, I agree. But there’s something unique about being able to voice out your inner fears, insecurities and anxieties with a companion and have them listen. They don’t even need to solution anything with you, necessarily. A lot of people, not just men, are lacking that when they’re lonely.

I hate that someone like OpenAI or Musk or Amazon are going to capitalize on this space in the worst possible ways. We need more empathy driven technology development, kinda like an actionable Hippocratic Oath for software dev