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Re:Grok is making AI companions, including a goth anime girl by numpad0 on Tuesday July 15, 2025 @02:54AM (#44568607)
I think it's the opposite. You can't be hyper-social in a thousand hour long sushi packed train ride. Urbanization suppresses real human connections. That creates demand for mock/fake environments that simulate "parking lot" environments where it would not be too inconsiderate to be social. All the successful examples of these parasocial contents eventually grow communities around them.

(Not that I think this particular one goes anywhere, no way.)

Re:Grok is making AI companions, including a goth anime girl by parodysbird on Tuesday July 15, 2025 @03:36AM (#44568852)
That's a wild impression of what living in a city is like
Re:Grok is making AI companions, including a goth anime girl by mynti on Tuesday July 15, 2025 @05:18AM (#44569381)
someone who has never lived in a walkable city..
Re:Grok is making AI companions, including a goth anime girl by vouaobrasil on Tuesday July 15, 2025 @01:12PM (#44573466)
Sorry, but you just made my point. Urban train rides are already an effect of advancing technology. Being packed like sushi simply wouldn't happen if we hadn't become addicted to advancing technology. That's a central tenet of technology which only occured around the 19th century. AI is the next stage and the apex of this process which alienate people from each other.