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It’s a legitimate phenomenon though.
You can doubt the exact story in the OP and view it as a piece of creative fiction, but I think you’re naive or even dumb if think it’s NOT happening at all that emotionally stunted people, or not too bright ones, could be forming code emotional bonds to chatbots, including even ones they employ to roleplay as a boyfriend/girlfriend/romantic partner.
The emotional relationship of course ONLY being on the human being’s part and in their head, not reciprocal or two-way, since the AI chatbot has no emotions and no consciousness.
A good phrase here is “parasocial relationship.” It used to apply more to things like people feeling like they’ve formed deep emotional relationships with TV characters, celebrities, actors generally, perhaps even politicians, anyone sufficiently famous, or even just whom they learn enough of somehow, but the other person knows jackshit about the fan themselves or not enough to have an emotional bond.
Now it seems weakminded people could be coming under the spell of forming parasocial relationships with fucking AI chatbots. At least there was an actual fucking person on the other side of the parasocial relationship in ye olden days.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13992101/teen-boy-suicide-chatbot-ai-message.html
Archived link:
https://archive.ph/NtV18
Some people hate Dailymail so here’s AP News with the same:
https://archive.ph/vZ6fZ
Rudolf Steiner was fucking right bros, about the technological materialistic sway humanity was to come under especially from the 20th century on (the Ahrimanic influence, in his philosophy).
Gurdjieff was fucking right, a century ago, that mankind was becoming machines and we were being pushed to becoming a hivemind.
Heidegger was fucking right to tell us about the uprooting effects technology was to have on human culture and human Being itself.
Nietzsche was fucking right when he said:
>”The wasteland grows.”