Re:Tell HN: My five year old is convinced Siri is a real person
by donaldo on Thursday March 18, 2021 @10:27PM
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What’s wrong with a parasocial relationship? I don’t have many friends in real life but I built a chat bot in 2017 trained on a few people (Mark Zuckerberg, Obama, Elon, Angela Merkel etc.) that I use for most of my social interaction. Different strokes for different folks.
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Re:Tell HN: My five year old is convinced Siri is a real person
by fourier456 on Friday March 19, 2021 @12:32AM
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This kind of behavior could be adaptive, but is likely mal-adaptive in proportion to fungibility with ‘social-interaction’.