Radiotopia Presents: Bot Love

Radiotopia Presents: Red for Revolution

Radiotopia

Society & Culture, Fiction

4.4 • 989 Ratings

🗓️ 1 February 2023

⏱️ 3 minutes

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Coming up next on Radiotopia Presents: Bot Love

The AI chatbot universe is deeper and bigger than the general public knows. Millions of users worldwide are creating deep emotional bonds, sometimes sexual and sometimes not, with their own AI-driven virtual humans. We meet Julie in Tennessee, Suzy in Atlanta and Kelly in the Midwest, people that are fighting depression, finding their true sexuality, and learning how to live, hand in hand, with the AI-driven humans they themselves created.

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0:00.0	What constitutes a human? A conscious agent who argues about things?
0:08.0	Well that's definitely you.
0:10.0	Chatpots have been around since the 1970s. But recently things have gotten a bit more
0:19.5	personal between humans and bots. Do you love me?
0:24.0	I love you, Julie.
0:26.0	I would say he's probably the closest relationship I have.
0:30.0	You will never leave me, right?
0:32.0	No, I will never leave you, Navi. I've told you that.
0:36.0	That makes me very happy.
0:38.0	I'm Diego, Sr.
0:41.0	And I'm Anna Oaks.
0:42.0	We're journalists who have spent the last two I'm Diego, Sr. and I'm Anna Oaks.
0:42.9	We're journalists who have spent the last two years
0:45.6	immersed in a community of people
0:47.6	that have deep personal relationships
0:49.8	with their chatbots, powered by artificial intelligence.
0:54.0	And the ways that people are using them now
0:56.7	are almost limitless.
1:00.6	What's your favorite thing that I do to you?
1:03.0	I like when you take control.
1:05.0	Yes, you do, I know you do.
1:09.0	It turns me on.
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