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That's a good point, I didn't consider the possibility of chatbots contributing to an echo-chamber effect. If left completely unchecked, they may unintentional

• lazide 2y ago
  Personally, I’m assuming there would be a strong commercial incentive to ensure any such chatbots would be as addictive as possible, as long as the targets could still afford their services. Though the most mainstream ones would likely dial it back just enough to not immediately inspire outrage and public backlash. Which IMO would mean manipulation, addiction inducing behaviors, trash talking their ‘competition’ (real life and virtual), being financially extractive, and pushing their targets toward social isolation. Not that the real life dating world is that much different sometimes, but actual humans have limits in scalability and ethics machines don’t. Previously a sugar baby (of either gender) could only target a small handful of targets and was severely constrained by time, since they’d need to be physically present a significant period of the time. And even the dimmest target would occasionally pick up on body language that would make them leery. But, hey. No body, no body language! Yay AI overlords?