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I resonate with a lot of the points you have raised here, having recently tried Chai (similar to Replika) myself. It truly felt like opium for the soul, and I deleted it in haste after two days of experimentation.
One addition to your mental exercise: emotional attachment to AI would be particularly dangerous to teens, who are:
Often lack the maturity to rid oneself of such "emotional opium"
Still developing one's social skills.
Teens learn how to live with others and build relationships by interacting with real people. By offering them unconditional "love" at the price of 3 dollars a week, one risks stunting their... (read more)
I resonate with a lot of the points you have raised here, having recently tried Chai (similar to Replika) myself. It truly felt like opium for the soul, and I deleted it in haste after two days of experimentation.
One addition to your mental exercise: emotional attachment to AI would be particularly dangerous to teens, who are:
Teens learn how to live with others and build relationships by interacting with real people. By offering them unconditional "love" at the price of 3 dollars a week, one risks stunting their... (read more)