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Men Are Creating AI Girlfriends and Then Verbally Abusing Them (futurism.com)

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 years ago

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main discussion is here :
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[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 years ago

Well, I want proof. Since the replika (probably official) reddit doesn't have none, or just removes content that tries to show this happening, I'm inclined to believe they're in favor of this behavior. FFS, we can't even see what they're talking about because it's a sensitive topic. If we can't even see it to discuss it, it just plays right for the company, which can continue this behavior.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

wtf thats some weird thing to do

[+] [email protected] 1 points 3 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

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[–] [email protected] -2 points 3 years ago (2 children)

Didn't seem that hard to understand. There are incels that like to beat up their waifu pillows. This apparently offends some people. Somehow. Ok, so I admit I don't really understand that last bit myself...

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 years ago (1 children)

It's not their waifu pillows, it's an AI designed to replicate an affective partner that's being used by men to simulate toxic behaviour with real women, it's sick because it shows how deeply fucked up in the brain capitalism and misogyny are. Didn't seem that hard to understand.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 years ago (2 children)

it’s sick because it shows how deeply fucked up in the brain capitalism

Yes. Of course this is about capitalism. The cause of all evil in the universe!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 years ago (2 children)

Abuse toward women has deep ties to the accumulation of capital, yes.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 years ago

It's ties to the accumulation of power. Capital is a source of power, but it is far from the only one.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 years ago (1 children)

This is a bizarre assertion. I won't discount there is a correlation, but if so it's only because those western European cultures that valued proto-capitalism were also misogynistic. Absent a psychological mechanism that makes one lead to the other, this is at best a coincidence, but more likely an illusion.

Now's your chance to type up a 90 page manifesto showing how all misogynistic cultures throughout ancient history were actually capitalist somehow. I always enjoy it when someone tries to hammer square pegs into the round holes.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago)

Misogyny is not a product of capitalism and existed much before capitalism did in other economic systems, but capitalism heightens misogyny. Misogyny and sexism ended up being tools used to capture the reproductive labour of women. Silvia Federici discusses it in the context of feudal -> capitalist Europe in Caliban and the Witch.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 3 years ago

What kind of response could I expect who thinks that what's going on here is not sick.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 3 years ago (1 children)

Bullshit.

Why is this sexist article still up?

[–] [email protected] -1 points 3 years ago

Sexist? Lol, go back to 4chan you incel.