@J12t looking at the tabloids by the supermarket checkout one might argueb that they already have, and moving the parasocial relationships to LLMs doesn't actually change that much.
@danlyke I was thinking that, too, but then I realized that all these imaginary friends are going to talk back, all the time. People will end up not just with a virtual girlfriend who is always there for you, but Taylor Swift as a virtual house mate who is really into you and sings you a lullaby just for you with your own hopes and dreams every night.
@J12t yeah. And people who learn social interactions from that undifferentiated centralized LLM are going to have different rules than the punks on the fringes of society...
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@danlyke I was thinking that, too, but then I realized that all these imaginary friends are going to talk back, all the time. People will end up not just with a virtual girlfriend who is always there for you, but Taylor Swift as a virtual house mate who is really into you and sings you a lullaby just for you with your own hopes and dreams every night.