Teenagers turning to AI companions are redefining love as easy, unconditional and always there.
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You can choose to leave
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Very astute observation. Bravo.
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That's precisely why it was a mistake. People did those things before Facebook, but now? So many people have no clue how to exist without it, and all the while, it's weaponized against people's ignorance by bad actors who are greedy for power and money.
Hell, we've had to create decentralized tools just to get some of our agency back. And yet, even knowing that their data is fodder for those same bad actors, people still flock to those previous systems like Facebook, TikTok, Xitter, and Instagram.
Social media isn't a mistake because social media is inherently bad. It's a mistake, because humans in general are too stupid to protect themselves.
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That's the best no context quote of the year so far.
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Please also call me when the sexbots are here. I'd like to preorder if possible.
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It will be fine for most kids who try it and really harmful for a minority of them
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If it weren’t for social media, humanity would find another technology to lie and manipulate people for money and power.
Money and Power are what corrupts, not technology
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I would expect the teenage years to be where most people's sociopathy peaks before trailing off as they continue to mature emotionally.
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I honestly think social media and internet subculture would be fine if it weren't soured by moneyed interests
If work wasn't so alienating and all-encompassing and we weren't so stressed and insecure in our material conditions, then we wouldnt run to social media as an escape. If wasn't also so rife with consumerist culture and advertisements it wouldnt be so corrosive. Maybe then we could use it to create communities that mirror and bridge into irl spaces and create meaningful relationships.
Instead, the entire network has been constructed around a capitalist organization and it only serves to make us more miserable.
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I can't help but wonder how many of the Reddit users that articles like this use for quotes, data, etc. are actually AI profiles themselves.
Like the internet's already dead and it's just the AI leading the AI and that's why everything feels weird
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It was all about "fun" in the days of MySpace and Digg and early-Reddit. That damn cat wanted a damn cheeseburger and we all laughed about it.
Then it became all about politics. And people would go to any lengths to ensure that "their" politics "won" on social media. We went from people having fleets of alt accounts, to fleets of bots, to just having AI spread and upvote propaganda.
So, it's all just gross now. I want my goddamn Geocities & Yahoo! Towers back.
