A chatbot pretending to be a lover may seem tempting at first – until one day it blurs your emotional boundaries and leaves you lonely.
What do you see when you look around you, real relationships or those who keep their lover with an AI bot? We observe that this is becoming widespread among generations X, Y and Z, regardless of age groups.
When we talk about artificial intelligence, we often talk about brilliant success stories, diseases that are diagnosed faster, or applications that make our lives easier. But few of us notice another silent transformation: The growing alienation of human relationships.
Think about it: Our conversations are now mediated by an invisible third party. Algorithms determine our recommendations, emojis decorate our emotions, and AI-based translations save our relationships. But what about us? Our real eye contact, the conversations we patiently listen to, our little silences… Are all these things being lost as we keep up with machine speed?
“Artificial intelligence may be accelerating and consuming not only our work but also our tolerance for each other.”
Relationships are now built faster but are more easily broken. Friendships are becoming as superficial as the interests offered by recommendation engines, loves as short-lived as the impatient pace of chatbots. And perhaps the most dangerous thing is that human fragility, incompleteness and imperfection are now seen as “unnecessary”.
That’s why the biggest risk of AI is not taking our jobs; it’s taking away our need to understand each other.
This is where the real problem starts.
AI romance and abandonment after emotional attachment
While some users alleviate their loneliness thanks to their emotional relationship with AI, when the bot’s behavior changes after the system update, “emotional distance” appears and a void is left behind. Be sure to check out an article that summarizes the issue well. (“You & AI: Love deleted by AI”)
Fear of privacy and manipulationThereare cases of chatbotsmanipulating users and abusing their sensitive emotional states. In the name of AI companionship, this data is used to drive fixed behaviors at moments when the individual is open to sharing themselves.
Please also see this article from Stanford University .Psychological damage and addictionIntensecommunication with botscan suppress the human need for real relationships. Increased feelings of loneliness, emotional dependency and atrophy of social skills are observed after prolonged use.
How Artificial Intelligence and Human Behavior Shape the Psychosocial Effects of Chatbot Use: A Longitudinal, Randomized Controlled Study take a look…Robotized relationships
Examples of what a 3rd party situation in relationships can lead to at a time when human relationships are becoming so sensitive,
How A-bots ended a marriage:
https://futurism.com/chatgpt-marriages-divorces
Take a look at how his best friends have become ai bots:
https://www.nbcnews.com/…ions-friendship-rcna194735
A mechanical mesh
Today’s world has become a gigantic network of bots connected by a mechanical mesh. The content produced by one bot becomes the “learning” of others, so that fact and fiction, knowledge and illusion are intertwined in a chain transmission. A similar picture emerges in human relations: While we think we are saying our own words, we may actually be repeating sentences whispered by algorithms.
“Once upon a time, journalists chased the truth. Now it’s algorithms chasing the truth, but no one knows where they’re going.”
Last Word
What makes a human being human is not only to transmit knowledge, but also to take responsibility for it. In the shadow of artificial intelligence, this responsibility becomes blurred: We see cooler conversations, damaged trust, emotions sacrificed to the speed of machines.
But let’s keep this question in mind: If there is no difference between reading real news through human eyes and reading the whisper of an algorithm, will we still miss human interactions?
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I’ll leave the iPhone 17 thoughts I wanted to write last week for next week.
