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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Hello, ladies and gentlemen, Welcome back to High Media TV.
I'm your host dem from High Media TV, and welcome
back to High Media Headlines for today, September the twenty third,
twenty twenty five, The rapture didn't happen.
Speaker 2 (00:16):
Oh no, we have to go to work today, boom.
But we have some news for you today. I'm gonna
talk about that more on Little Black Book. You can
check that out at Himedia Dot gg Slash podcasts, but
and or slash a Little Black Book rather. But let's
get right into the show, hey, shall we. Folks falling
(00:40):
in love with M chatbots often end up Folks falling
for LLM chatbots often end up with AI girlfriends unintentionally,
claims a new study. A new study offers a first
(01:01):
of its kind art Skille computational analysis exploring the how
and why folks falling for age I chatbots. The research
team drove into the subredit my boyfriend is AI just
the absolute pinnacle uh like of mental illness like like.
I personally was a fan during the COVID days of
the r slash Herman Kane Awards. But you know this
(01:30):
is because people are completely serious about it so much
more engaging Oh my God, a community of folks that
sometimes ironically, sometimes more seriously refer to AI chatbots like
chat GBT as the romantic other half. The team found
that many users AI companionship emerges unintentionally through functional use
(01:50):
rather than deliberate seeking. That means that while a user
may first begin using an AI chatbot to say, redraft
an email or research case law that doesn't exist, an
attachment can form over the course of initially a romantic prompts.
The research Strom findings are drawn from a sample of
(02:12):
a fifteen hundred and six posts collective between twenty twenty
four and twenty twenty five from the afremented twenty seven
thousand plus strong subreddit. Researchers note that the official reddit
API limited them to looking at top ranked posts rather
than absolutely everything, so they argue that the snapshot still
captures the most engaged with content, most engaged with content,
(02:35):
and represents diverse conversation topics that resonate most strongly within
that community. So you know, I'm a d one AI hater,
as many of you probably know, and I you know,
like before, like let me just say before I'm serious
(02:58):
about this, because I just can't help myself. I feel
like I could sell these people a catch of popsicle
while they're wearing white gloves. I feel like these people
are I if these are the people that are are just,
(03:26):
Oh my god. I just I apologize for the babbling.
I'm just I'm trying, just I'm trying to not just
call these people able ast slurs at this point because
my boy are slash. My boyfriend is ai. Oh my god,
I just because. On a more serious note, a big
(03:49):
reason for stuff like this is primarily because of the
loneliness epidemic that we are dealing with in this country.
Many of those are systematic in terms of like the
lack of a third space, the push towards social media
and engagement online, the lack of ability to like sort
of meet other people in public in a healthy and
(04:13):
proactive way, the UH, the increasing fear response that people have,
and and and and the increased wariness of strangers that
people have, the lack of community and the death dissolution
of community as under like more and more suburbanite and
suburbanization of like more urban areas. UH, you're not really
(04:37):
able to like engage with your neighbors that much engaging
with your neighbors, you know, which would have been something
normal thirty forty years ago, is something that is is
kind of abhorrent Now people don't really like even people
don't even want to like look their DoorDash driver in
the eye, you know.
Speaker 1 (04:55):
You know.
Speaker 2 (04:55):
So it's it's, it's, it's it's a lot of uh.
And in our media sort of like pushes a towards
that to a degree. And then there's other things where,
you know, if we're talking more about the specifically the
male loneliness epidemic and things of that nature, a lot
of that is also influenced by everything I just mentioned.
It's also meant it's also some some of it is
(05:19):
is how patriarchy affects men in that regard and makes
input holds men to a standard that is not healthy
and not productive for men to be at. And also
I see how men behave online and honestly, I'd say
a good like seventy percent of the male loneliness epidemic
is like self fucking inflicted. But that's just me. But
(05:44):
all of that to say that, in the wake of
not really having anybody, it's not surprising that as we
exist in this increasingly isolating, increasingly dystopian world where you
have people don't have that many friends, people don't have
that many connections to their community, people don't have really
much of anything. It leads us to being in an
(06:06):
environment where you know, the less mentally for uh, the
less mentally capable of of us, end up hallucinating the
fact that AI is a person in a relationship with them.
(06:34):
It's it's it's as as much as we can meme
on it, as much as we can joke about it,
it is ostensibly very sad and and it is and
it and it is indicative and and and condemning of
the time we are currently living in. And that that's
just that's then's the breaks. Moving on, ladies and gentlemen,
(06:57):
to the mb and Index. The mb and Index is
how we hear at high media TV gauge the health
of the American economy by looking at the store brand
price of milk, bread, and eggs from major American retailers.
The current mb and E index stands at nine dollars
and ninety seven cents. With all these all these that
same day on day at twenty seven, seven, twenty seven,
(07:18):
rather shop right at eleven eighty eight and Walmart down
thirty five cents to seven dollars and two cents at present.
Ladies and gentlemen, thank you so much for listening to
High Media Headlines for today, September the twenty third. We
appreciate you your time, your listenership. If you want to
support the show, please consider doing so by listening to
(07:40):
more episodes of High Media Headlines or all of our
many of our other shows, all found at himedia dot
gg slash pods or wherever you get your pods. And
if and only if you have the financial fortitude to
do so and you got significant sufficient value out of
our content, please consider donating three dollars on co fire
(08:00):
or five dollars on Twitch through a Twitch, both of
which give you unlock huge amounts of access and perks
in our discord community, which you should join by the way,
all links down below. Thank you so much, ladies and
gentlemen for listening. We appreciate you your time and your viewership,
and we will see you guys next time.
Hello, ladies and gentlemen, Welcome back to High Media TV.
I'm your host dem from High Media TV, and welcome
back to High Media Headlines for today, September the twenty third,
twenty twenty five, The rapture didn't happen.
Speaker 2 (00:16):
Oh no, we have to go to work today, boom.
But we have some news for you today. I'm gonna
talk about that more on Little Black Book. You can
check that out at Himedia Dot gg Slash podcasts, but
and or slash a Little Black Book rather. But let's
get right into the show, hey, shall we. Folks falling
(00:40):
in love with M chatbots often end up Folks falling
for LLM chatbots often end up with AI girlfriends unintentionally,
claims a new study. A new study offers a first
(01:01):
of its kind art Skille computational analysis exploring the how
and why folks falling for age I chatbots. The research
team drove into the subredit my boyfriend is AI just
the absolute pinnacle uh like of mental illness like like.
I personally was a fan during the COVID days of
the r slash Herman Kane Awards. But you know this
(01:30):
is because people are completely serious about it so much
more engaging Oh my God, a community of folks that
sometimes ironically, sometimes more seriously refer to AI chatbots like
chat GBT as the romantic other half. The team found
that many users AI companionship emerges unintentionally through functional use
(01:50):
rather than deliberate seeking. That means that while a user
may first begin using an AI chatbot to say, redraft
an email or research case law that doesn't exist, an
attachment can form over the course of initially a romantic prompts.
The research Strom findings are drawn from a sample of
(02:12):
a fifteen hundred and six posts collective between twenty twenty
four and twenty twenty five from the afremented twenty seven
thousand plus strong subreddit. Researchers note that the official reddit
API limited them to looking at top ranked posts rather
than absolutely everything, so they argue that the snapshot still
captures the most engaged with content, most engaged with content,
(02:35):
and represents diverse conversation topics that resonate most strongly within
that community. So you know, I'm a d one AI hater,
as many of you probably know, and I you know,
like before, like let me just say before I'm serious
(02:58):
about this, because I just can't help myself. I feel
like I could sell these people a catch of popsicle
while they're wearing white gloves. I feel like these people
are I if these are the people that are are just,
(03:26):
Oh my god. I just I apologize for the babbling.
I'm just I'm trying, just I'm trying to not just
call these people able ast slurs at this point because
my boy are slash. My boyfriend is ai. Oh my god,
I just because. On a more serious note, a big
(03:49):
reason for stuff like this is primarily because of the
loneliness epidemic that we are dealing with in this country.
Many of those are systematic in terms of like the
lack of a third space, the push towards social media
and engagement online, the lack of ability to like sort
of meet other people in public in a healthy and
(04:13):
proactive way, the UH, the increasing fear response that people have,
and and and and the increased wariness of strangers that
people have, the lack of community and the death dissolution
of community as under like more and more suburbanite and
suburbanization of like more urban areas. UH, you're not really
(04:37):
able to like engage with your neighbors that much engaging
with your neighbors, you know, which would have been something
normal thirty forty years ago, is something that is is
kind of abhorrent Now people don't really like even people
don't even want to like look their DoorDash driver in
the eye, you know.
Speaker 1 (04:55):
You know.
Speaker 2 (04:55):
So it's it's, it's, it's it's a lot of uh.
And in our media sort of like pushes a towards
that to a degree. And then there's other things where,
you know, if we're talking more about the specifically the
male loneliness epidemic and things of that nature, a lot
of that is also influenced by everything I just mentioned.
It's also meant it's also some some of it is
(05:19):
is how patriarchy affects men in that regard and makes
input holds men to a standard that is not healthy
and not productive for men to be at. And also
I see how men behave online and honestly, I'd say
a good like seventy percent of the male loneliness epidemic
is like self fucking inflicted. But that's just me. But
(05:44):
all of that to say that, in the wake of
not really having anybody, it's not surprising that as we
exist in this increasingly isolating, increasingly dystopian world where you
have people don't have that many friends, people don't have
that many connections to their community, people don't have really
much of anything. It leads us to being in an
(06:06):
environment where you know, the less mentally for uh, the
less mentally capable of of us, end up hallucinating the
fact that AI is a person in a relationship with them.
(06:34):
It's it's it's as as much as we can meme
on it, as much as we can joke about it,
it is ostensibly very sad and and it is and
it and it is indicative and and and condemning of
the time we are currently living in. And that that's
just that's then's the breaks. Moving on, ladies and gentlemen,
(06:57):
to the mb and Index. The mb and Index is
how we hear at high media TV gauge the health
of the American economy by looking at the store brand
price of milk, bread, and eggs from major American retailers.
The current mb and E index stands at nine dollars
and ninety seven cents. With all these all these that
same day on day at twenty seven, seven, twenty seven,
(07:18):
rather shop right at eleven eighty eight and Walmart down
thirty five cents to seven dollars and two cents at present.
Ladies and gentlemen, thank you so much for listening to
High Media Headlines for today, September the twenty third. We
appreciate you your time, your listenership. If you want to
support the show, please consider doing so by listening to
(07:40):
more episodes of High Media Headlines or all of our
many of our other shows, all found at himedia dot
gg slash pods or wherever you get your pods. And
if and only if you have the financial fortitude to
do so and you got significant sufficient value out of
our content, please consider donating three dollars on co fire
(08:00):
or five dollars on Twitch through a Twitch, both of
which give you unlock huge amounts of access and perks
in our discord community, which you should join by the way,
all links down below. Thank you so much, ladies and
gentlemen for listening. We appreciate you your time and your viewership,
and we will see you guys next time.
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