Two visions for social media’s future pit real connections against AI friends.

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    3 days ago

    When I was a lonely teenager, all I ever wanted was a fake connection to fake friends from a profiteering-on-the-loneliness-epidemic mass-conglomerate of terrible people. That would have helped my awful depression and thoughts of suicide. In fact, the app Eliza already existed and I had it (it was an early chatbot). Why did I feel so lonely if the solution already existed? Zuck has surely struck gold with this one.