Artificial Intelligence girlfriends could be ruining our ability to connect… this is not God’s plan

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Lauren Windle explores the disturbing new “AI girlfriend” trend and asks what it could do for real human interactions.

Artificial intelligence is this year’s hot button topic. I’ve been to virtually all the major Christian festivals and every single one has hosted a seminar on AI. Will ChatGPT have me out of the job? Could it have written this article better? Do we even need actors when we can make avatars of our favourites and have them perform in any way we choose? These are all questions that fill me with an impending sense of doom.

Until now, I had only thought of issues around AI relating to privacy and the value of skilled human work… but now I’m worried about dating. An article in The Guardian highlighted that hoards of lonely men are turning to AI girlfriends for comfort and that this could have dangerous consequences.

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