A good blog post ruminating on sycosocial relationships and Who Assistants Serve:

"I don't think these events are a troubling sign or a warning, they are closer to a diagnosis. We are living in a world where people form real emotional bonds with bags of neural networks that cannot love back, and when the companies behind those neural networks change things, people get emotionally devastated. We aren't just debating the ideas of creating and nurturing relationships with digital minds, we're seeing the side effects of that happening in practice."

It took us nearly a decade for the massive negative externalities of social media to be crystal clear.

We're already seeing significant weird and widespread negative externalities of chatbots.

Imagine where this will be in a decade…