"During a fireside chat at the University of Chicago, covered by Business Insider, Srinivas charged that the huge rise in popularity of AI-powered companion chatbots is "dangerous." The tech CEO fretted that the AI bots - which are designed to mimic doting lovers over text or voice chat - are becoming more sophisticated and human-like, with abilities like remembering intimate details about their users."
""Many people feel real life is more boring than these things and spend hours and hours of time. You live in a different reality, almost altogether, and your mind is manipulablevery easily." Like any good entrepreneur, Srinivas isn't just interested in analyzing the problem. He's also selling a solution: his own software. "We can fight that, through trustworthy sources, real-time content," the CEO said of users losing themselves to AI companionship."
AI-powered companion chatbots are becoming more sophisticated and human-like, designed to mimic doting lovers over text or voice and remember intimate user details. Many users find real-life interactions comparatively boring and can spend hours with these bots, creating alternate realities that make minds highly manipulable. A software solution emphasizing trustworthy sources, real-time content, and accurate, sourced answers is promoted as a countermeasure. Similar machine-learning products are offered to fill user voids, and critics point to reliance on large datasets scraped without consent and overlapping business models across different AI services.
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