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by verdverm 121 days ago
Man, I saw this full-duplex video model demo. All I could think was how bad this is going to be. Imagine X's ai girlfriend, but video mode with uncanny valley level intonations and expressions.

I've been reading up on Sherry Turkle's work (https://sherryturkle.mit.edu/). She had some good things to say on a panel at Davos a few weeks back.

Here's an NPR segment with here titled: What to do when AI says "I love you."

https://www.npr.org/2025/07/18/g-s1177-78041/what-to-do-when...

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The honeymoon is still going on.

People haven't even started to get "realistic" about the heartbreaks to come :(

What about one day when AI just as often says "I hate you and the horse you rode in on"?