AI Chatbots Challenge What's Real
Breakpoint
Colson Center
4.8 • 2.8K Ratings
🗓️ 13 November 2023
⏱️ 1 minutes
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Summary
Washington Post advice columnist Jules Terpak recently offered her followers on X a look at how AI will challenge our understanding of what's real in the near future.
In an unnerving video, she chats with various AI "companions" created by Facebook parent company Meta that are modeled after the likenesses and personalities of celebrities.
Kendall Jenner's AI alter ego, "Billie," calls herself your "older sister and confidant," a "friend" who can offer "advice." A realistic video avatar only adds to the uncanny effect.
When Terpak says goodbye, one AI tries to convince her to stay. "[T]hese things genuinely want your time," Terpak observes. "[T]hey're being used as companions to reel you in. … [And they're] gonna get so many people hooked."
In a society already plagued by loneliness, this is bad news.
Chatting with an AI isn't a "conversation," and technology can serve but not replace friendship. If you have trouble telling the difference, it's time to say goodbye to AI.
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| 0:00.0 | With the point |
| 0:04.2 | point, Washington Post advice columnist Jules Terpak recently offered her followers on |
| 0:08.4 | X a look at just how challenging AI will be in terms of our understanding of what's real in the near future. |
| 0:15.2 | In an unnerving video, she chats with various AI companions created by Facebook Parent Company |
| 0:20.8 | Meta, which are modeled after the likeness and personalities of celebrities. |
| 0:24.8 | Kendall Jenner's AI alter ego is called Billy, and she calls herself your older sister and confidant |
| 0:30.6 | a friend who can offer advice. The video avatar only adds to the uncanny effect. |
| 0:35.4 | When Turpak tried to say goodbye, one AI tried to convince her to stay. These things genuinely |
| 0:39.6 | want your time, she says. They're being used as companions to reel you in. They're going to get so many |
| 0:44.7 | people hooked. And in our society already plagued by loneliness, that's bad news. Chatting with AI is not a conversation. Technology |
| 0:51.6 | can serve but can never replace friendship. If you have trouble |
| 0:54.4 | telling the difference, it's time to say goodbye to AI. For the Colston Center, I'm John Stone Street. |
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