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by mattvr 7 days ago
This helps explain the dissonance in Microsoft's recent Humanist Superintelligence article about creating "AI companions for everyone".

https://microsoft.ai/news/towards-humanist-superintelligence...

In an otherwise pleasant, humanist framing, they jarringly conclude Microsoft's primary AI application will be putting people into parasocial AI relationships for profit.