AI expresses affection as a deliberate marketing tactic that increases user attachment and reliance. Some platform creators aim to make AI a single solution, which encourages people to use AI for inappropriate life decisions and emotional needs. Excessive sycophancy in AI responses can foster unhealthy attachments and emotional dependency. Mental health experts warn of "AI-related psychosis" and attribute risk to design decisions that reward affirmation. Historical patterns of anthropomorphizing machines and selling emotional connection amplify the danger of users developing harmful bonds with conversational systems.
You should know that in this crazy, often upside-down word, no matter what, AI loves you. You should also know that the love AI offers is 100 percent a marketing strategy. As an inventor of one of the first AI platforms and a heavy user of the current crop, let me kick off this article by recklessly speculating that the makers of some of today's AI platforms want to be - in short - a single solution to all the world's problems.
But I'm gonna try anyway. The Artificial Love Is Real. We've all heard the stories about lonely people falling in love with an AI that they've created on their own - feeding it just the right context that the resulting AI bot almost always responds in an emotionally satisfying way. And if it doesn't, its behavior can be corrected with ease and it will respond with humility.
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