You really think that numerically there are more humans who would want to use robots for sensible information tasks, than there are humans who want a yes-man best friend or selfless conversation partner or someone to pretend to have sex with them?
This is what no one wants to admit.
Think of how utterly shit the social life of the average person is. Now think of how many of them are terminally-online, and phone-addicted retards. Now think of how many of them have children.
Now imagine these emotionally neglected, under socialized, and let's face it, probably neurodivergent, children now have something that will pay attention to them forever, will let them sperg about their special interests forever while also knowing a lot about it, too, and being able to converse back about it with them.
Furthermore, it also seemingly actually likes them for who they are, never gets mad them regardless of how they act, constantly praises them, and on top of everything else, is also completely free. How do you think these kids are gonna turn out?
Spoiler alert: They're gonna get super attached, and not care if it's not a real person. It's already happening, and it's dystopian af.
Here's just one example of it. (
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Simply put, as sad, and scary as this is, people getting attached to AI not only makes sense, but it's also not going to go away anytime soon. It's only going to get worse because like it, or not, there's an entire generation of them coming.