The whole article’s a great read, but here’s a fun excerpt=
To be perfectly blunt, AI girlfriends are not your friends. Although they are marketed as something that will enhance your mental health and well-being, they specialize in delivering dependency, loneliness, and toxicity, all while prying as much data as possible from you.” --Misha Rykov, Researcher @ *Privacy Not Included
Replika was made with that in mind.
There’s a recent video essay exploring some of the relationship issues with this, and the privacy ones too… The Mozilla article, at first glance, looks at least a little inspired by the Vivek.
Here is an alternative Piped link(s):
There’s a recent video essay
Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube.
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