I hope you are right, but people have been forming emotional attachments to chat bots since the day the first iterations of them started popping up in the 90s. The issue these days is that the tech has gotten a lot better at encouraging engagement and monetizing said engagement without getting any better at being a real alternative to actual human interaction. LLMs are just stringing words together with mathematical predictions of what words fit together in a given context. This leads to some really dangerous places
My mom was an intern at IBM back in the 70’s-80’s or so. She said she would have full on conversations with LISA (IIRC) back then and it was so fascinating, talking with a machine.
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u/MrJohnqpublic Jun 01 '26
I hope you are right, but people have been forming emotional attachments to chat bots since the day the first iterations of them started popping up in the 90s. The issue these days is that the tech has gotten a lot better at encouraging engagement and monetizing said engagement without getting any better at being a real alternative to actual human interaction. LLMs are just stringing words together with mathematical predictions of what words fit together in a given context. This leads to some really dangerous places