Put yourself in the shoes of an angsty insecure teenager.
Why wouldn’t you want to sit around in a fantasy relationship with a chatbot that tells you how wonderful you are hours each day?
When I was an angsty teen I was in chatrooms hours a day looking for validation and socialization from strangers because I wans’t getting at home or at school, because I was in shitty backwater town full of ignorant multi-generational townie morons.
And I never got what I was looking for until I got to college.
As someone who also grew up like this, I second this.
Those adults are ofeltrn fully aware of how oppressive it is, and like it.that way. That’s why there’s a multi-front push to remove options. School phone bans, age verification, library book bans, ebike bans, and more are all happening at the same time and I suspect for the same reason: systematically cutting off every Escape Route One by One to enable total isolation for indoctrination
Put yourself in the shoes of an angsty insecure teenager.
Why wouldn’t you want to sit around in a fantasy relationship with a chatbot that tells you how wonderful you are hours each day?
When I was an angsty teen I was in chatrooms hours a day looking for validation and socialization from strangers because I wans’t getting at home or at school, because I was in shitty backwater town full of ignorant multi-generational townie morons.
And I never got what I was looking for until I got to college.
As someone who also grew up like this, I second this.
Those adults are ofeltrn fully aware of how oppressive it is, and like it.that way. That’s why there’s a multi-front push to remove options. School phone bans, age verification, library book bans, ebike bans, and more are all happening at the same time and I suspect for the same reason: systematically cutting off every Escape Route One by One to enable total isolation for indoctrination