2023/12/27

Trevor Paglen Foretells Horrors of AI Companionship

“Your own sense of reality becomes increasingly specific to you and your synthetic friends, but this isn’t happening on a neutral plane. Your friends work for giant corporations and are designed to extract as much value from you as possible.”
– American artist Trevor Paglen, at the 37th Chaos Communication Congress (37C3), illustrating a dystopian near-future of corporate AI companionship, where “emotional manipulation will be the name of the game”
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