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A Twitter-like app where you are the only actual user and every other "user" is an AI bot.
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this post was submitted on 18 Sep 2024
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this feels like the social media equivlant of West World pre meltdown. That is to say, It's a tourist atraction full of robots where an unseen actor is allowing you to live out a fantacy using their living dolls. The thing that makes it worse is unlike the film, We (now) know the money value of emotionally minipulating people (caugh casinos built into everything caugh).