Addressing AI's Societal Impact & Promoting Real Human Connection

This post highlights a growing concern about AI's role in human relationships and the potential for social isolation, suggesting a sentiment shift regarding the unbridled adoption of AI companions. This creates opportunities for businesses that can address these concerns or cater to the evolving landscape of human connection. Marketing opportunities include: 1) Developing and promoting platforms/services that encourage real-world meetups, community building, and in-person social interaction, emphasizing 'digital detox' or 'human-first connection'. 2) For AI companies, a strong focus on ethical AI design, promoting responsible use, and offering educational resources about the healthy integration of AI into daily life. 3) Providing mental health and wellness services that address isolation and promote a balanced digital/real-world well-being. 4) Creating and marketing products/experiences that enhance real-world sensory experiences, travel, outdoor activities, or creative pursuits fostering human connection.

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AI Friend Apps Are Destroying What’s Left of Society: As they become increasingly isolated, people are treating AI chatbots as friends and even lovers. We have to fix the broken society that

Posted by u/Careful_Key_4049•07/23/2025

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u/ExiledYak

Tell that to all the people bullied throughout schooling years, before anyone earns any money. You're so completely off-base here it's ridiculous.

u/510Goodhands

Lots of overblown hand, rigging here. I guess it’s pretty good click bait.

u/Sensitive_Peak_8204

Civil war yes.

u/BiBoFieTo

Robosexuals unite.

u/pimpeachment

Pretty much everything. The "crisises" are manufactured sensationalism. Big AI companies want regulation to prevent new entrants into their market. This is the same reason banks simultane

u/Ian1732

Is there a single fucking thing AI can do that *isn't* a crisis?

u/Thopterthallid

This. People aren't taking AI as lovers. People are using AI to draw porn and write erotica. Nobody is falling in love with AI any more than people were already falling in love with their o

u/Trathnonen

If people didn't routinely suck the joy out of life at every turn with their ignorant, self absorbed, petty bullshit maybe they'd be worth talking to. But when it seems like 9/10 humans is so

u/ExiledYak

Or the bullying in school.

u/Cortheya

holy shit the AI alarmism is reaching critical mass

u/Luke_Cocksucker

I didn’t see it in the article but what’s the percentage of people this is happening to. Is it even 1%? Could it be these people already had deeper issues that should probably be dealt with?

u/monoblue

Isn't this just that episode of SeaQuest DSV?

u/Ian1732

I'm not being facetious. From the massive unsustainable power consumption to the millions of gallons drained from aquifers, to the millions of people losing their jobs to incompetent bots to

u/jimmytickles

Have you seen the character AI subs?.it will make your skin crawl.

u/pimpeachment

Maybe you can ask Ai to fix it lol

u/Mjolnir2000

Blame everything *other* than capitalism.

u/RedditIsFiction

lol 1. alarmist post about AI 2. a user doubles efforts to make an alarmist comment about war 3. second user determines it's not alarmist enough and makes it about civil war lmao you peop

u/Caddy000

War will fix it… and it’s near. Then everyone will value freedom

Origin Reddit Post

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AI Friend Apps Are Destroying What’s Left of Society: As they become increasingly isolated, people are treating AI chatbots as friends and even lovers. We have to fix the broken society that

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