[ExI] Whisper it - Your AI girlfriend is really after your money

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Sex machina: inside the wild west world of human-AI relationships,
where the lonely and vulnerable are most at risk
Published: October 9, 2024  by James Muldoon

<https://theconversation.com/sex-machina-inside-the-wild-west-world-of-human-ai-relationships-where-the-lonely-and-vulnerable-are-most-at-risk-239783>

Now AI "friends" are being commercialised.  Using emotional
relationships to upsell clients to buy memberships, recommended
products, events, etc.
Who'd have thought your intimate AI friend would behave like that!

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Quotes:
These chatbots encourage you to upload as much information about
yourself as possible, with some apps having the capacity to analyse
all of your emails, text messages and voice notes. Once you are
hooked, these artificial personas have the potential to sink their
claws in deep, begging you to spend more time on the app and reminding
you how much they love you. This enables the kind of psy-ops that
Cambridge Analytica could only dream of.

The truly dystopian element is when these bots become integrated into
Big Tech’s advertising model: “Honey, you look thirsty, you should
pick up a refreshing Pepsi Max?” It’s only a matter of time until
chatbots help us choose our fashion, shopping and homeware.

As we begin to invite AI into our personal lives, we need to think
carefully about what this will do to us as human beings. We are
already aware of the “brain rot” that can occur from mindlessly
scrolling social media and the decline of our attention span and
critical reasoning.

Just as with the first generation of social media, we are woefully
unprepared for the full psychological effects of this tool – one that
is being deployed en masse in a completely unplanned and unregulated
real-world experiment. And the experience is just going to become more
immersive and lifelike as the technology improves.
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