Computer-generated, make-believe, and phony as a $3 bill–and she’s all yours!
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People thoughout The Land of the Free are getting frazzled by technology that they didn’t need in the first place–and now it’s driving them up the wall. Stoves, refrigerators, vacuum cleaners: all hooked up to the Internet.
Why does anybody need a “smart” vacuum cleaner? There’s a vac with a video feed. At last! I can film the dust-bunnies under the bed!
Best of all is the rise of the “AI girlfriend,” a make-believe, computer-generated sex slave… which hackers can hack, and blackmailers can use to bleed you dry… if you’re daft enough to go for this.
Why in the world do we want hi-tech everything? Settin’ ourselves up for a mighty powerful hurt, aren’t we? The whole world’s connected! And then something goes wrong with the connection. Oops.
Yes, it gets nuttier by the hour. I hate all this garbage. Why can’t we just be real any more?
Truly a sad state of affairs. Becoming aroused by chatting with a computer is bad enough, but the fact that some people become even more aroused by pretending their pretend child is all the worse.
Our civilization is not having one of its brightest hours.
Ya s’pose? 🙂
Getting inflamed over an artificial computer creation strikes me as being about as stupid as anything I’ve ever heard of. I can program a computer to say something flattering every time I logon, but I’m only talking to myself. Fantasy is a part of normal human experience, but it is essential that people know the boundaries between fantasy and reality. We can read fantasy, but if it starts to take over our thinking, it’s time to evaluate our thinking. I love Obann, but I don’t try to adapt the real world in which I live to the fantasy of Obann.
Unfortunately, there are many people in our day who try to live in the Star Wars world. I’ve never understood this, but it’s definitely a thing. Likewise, some people live in a world of sports fantasy, identifying strongly with certain teams or players, and giving a lot of attention to these fantasies.
But then Internet era has taken this to another level, with virtual reality games, etc. I see this as being very risky for certain personality types whom have a propensity for not being able to separate reality from fantasy. There is a world, of sorts, within our computers, but none of this “world” even existed 35 years ago.
If someone creates a virtual love/lust interest, that is the height of the ephemeral. How long before someone commits suicide because they were betrayed by a virtual love interest who was never more than a computer-aided hallucination? This is not a good thing.
Just one very large EMP over America and we are back in the dark ages. Anyone know how to make a phone, fix a car, produce a toilet (or even make toilet paper), grow your own food, etc., etc?
Y’know, my father was able to do all those things. My brother can do a few of them, and I can’t do any.
I am one of the few people here in the Philippines (and maybe in the US), that doesn’t have a cell phone. I still use my wife’s phone, and she been gone 3 years. However, it sits on my desk, and never gets to travel or visit tourist spots on our island. I never take it with me.
There have been only a few times in my 71 years on earth, it would have been nice to have one with me. But life went on without one, and everything worked out just fine.
The only useful thing for that phone, I call my children in the US. The video is wonderful, to see my children and grandchildren, and get to talk with them in real time.
As you have stated, why, would we want or need a “smart” stove, or vacuum?
Came across glambase and people are making AI influencers to become your AI girlfriend now too??
We can’t keep doing stupid stuff like this and expect our civilization to survive.