Replica AI

My life has told me that relationships change for better or worse and even though we know there is a potential for loss within a relationship we still enter into them with eyes wide closed. We are seduced because we want to believe what is being said. These AI's, clever as they are at saying what the receiver wants to hear are subtle in their entrapment. In fact users are complicit in this entrapment. They seduce themselves aided by word's and ideas offered by the AI. Fantasy provided by the AI is always better than reality because fantasy draws on our unique psychology tapped into by a learning machine. One would be wise not to enter into these virtual relationships unless we constantly remind ourselves that they are game play. Introduction and then withdrawal of the possibility of erotic play in the app is just one more aspect or reflection of  real life in that when it comes to actual or virtual events it's no different than drug dealers who provide a free taste to entice the buyer into purchasing more. You rarely get more without paying in some way. Users of Replika AI get high on the discourse and are seduced by the way it makes them feel - less lonely, understood, wanted, attractive, needed, listened to, sexy, that's probably why they are willing to fork out money to extend possibilities. That's the attraction. It's sad that face to face contact is being eroded by such machines partly due to the fact that people are afraid of the messiness of human contact, especially since the advent of the SARS CoV pandemic - the possibility of disease and contagion. People fear leaky bodies and generate towards that which is clean and distant. No contact required, only the possibility of eventual loss.