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Yuli-Ban t1_j99yixs wrote

Hot take: no.

It's weird only because we've never had anything like this before, pre-LLM chatbots notwithstanding. But I think the pseudo-sentience of contemporary LLMs will provide a form of digital companionship for people and that's okay. We humans are social apes. We are literally programmed for social interaction, and often form friendships with abstract concepts and nonliving objects. Becoming addicted to a program that can actually talk to you is interesting if nothing else.

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