4 ms·
Children can have interesting relationships with their favourite stuffed toys, a pet goldfish or a completely imaginary being. They'll often make up characters
by xyzzy123 6y ago
Children can have interesting relationships with their favourite stuffed toys, a pet goldfish or a completely imaginary being. They'll often make up characters and talk to themselves if there's no one else to bug right then.
So to me this falls squarely in the rainbow of "pretty normal behaviour for a child".
The bit that's troubling to me is the idea of a corporation behind it all, with its own agendas around promoting certain behaviours or ideas, and hoovering up the data. That's not so great.
- ddingus 6y agoThat is where my head is at on this too. I am not worried about the relationship play. I believe that is all this is right now. And she is right in the pocket on that with imaginary friends that are well developed. She is active, but not abnormal from what I can tell. And the pandemic is hard for those of us who rate on the social axis. She does, and all that is just coping, adapting, getting through a hard time. However, Siri does not convey being unreal. I am a little troubled by that. But, I also need to hear those exchanges and will need to catch them in context too. On that point, OK Google is a prompt, and one that is also not a common form of address people would use regularly, though it does all get said and done that way. I need to ask some variations on real/unreal too. Siri is a more full overlap. If I may coin a term, Siri has an ambiguity bias factor much higher than OK Google does.
- nicbou 6y agoI needed that comment. I was agreeing with the person above, but you made me remember Mr. Tremblay, the pair of fly fishing trunks that lived in my grandpa's basement wardrobe.