The Human Cost Of Talking To Machines: Can A Chatbot Really Care?
“If technology is making the illusion of participation feel more potent, it’s not by overproducing the means of human connection but by creating the conditions in which endless, aimless discourse has no phatic component. […]
Who could possibly believe that an interaction with an AI model is (1) a conversation and (2) that it warrants evaluation in t
... See moreartificial empathy is worthy of research. Millions of people have no one they can talk to about their problems. Millions of people rarely receive compassion from another human being. For these people, having access to an AI chatbot that can perform care for them may be an important contributor to their mental wellbeing. Esther Perel compares these ... See more
Nick Barr • Enhancing Self-Therapy with Internal Family Systems and AI -
Maybe AI doesn’t raise the bar. Maybe it reveals how low we’ve let the bar drop. In a world where ghosting is normal and attentiveness is rare, a chatbot that listens is radical.
Imaginary Friends Grew Up: We Panicked
AI-powered document editors, then, among other tools, use all that training data to make it even easier to write outcome-oriented garbage that moves us further and further from the truth of ourselves and each other as beautiful, complex, experiencing beings.
Dan Hunt • Internet as Practice
