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I don't think you can just say the customers know that everything is artificial and completely staged. Sometimes there are genuine parasocial relationships goin

I don't think you can just say the customers know that everything is artificial and completely staged. Sometimes there are genuine parasocial relationships going on, especially with particularly vulnerable and lonely people who would pay for this. And what they're paying for is an interaction with that particular person, not someone pretending to be that person. Would you assert that the same service is being provided if it was a chatbot?

ratww 4y ago
In practice, yes. It would be the same end result for both: one person not caring and the other caring too much. But you're right: the parasocial relationship makes it different, and it is indeed fraud. If a friend did that to me I would also get angry too. But on the other hand, I would probably figure out if a friend of mine ever does it.