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   BowserNoodle ☦️ (bowsacnoodle@poa.st)'s status on Sunday, 27-Jul-2025 09:25:39 JST BowserNoodle ☦️
   I have an idea that shitposters are immune to AI psychosis (or whatever we call the strange addiction fixation people get where they stop treating it as a text bot). Something about posting dumb stuff just to be funny and treating the online as a separate disposable fake reality probably helps. I wonder if teaching people to shitpost would actually help inoculate by giving them a healthier view of the internet and computers as a tool, or if it's just the personality type drawn to shitposting that thinks it's dumb to pretend an AI is your gf.
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     Ronin Grey (roningrey@merovingian.club)'s status on Sunday, 27-Jul-2025 09:51:21 JST Ronin Grey

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     @BowsacNoodle I've found the opposite is true.

     But the guys I know who have waifus don't get confused about the reality of it, anymore than they confuse playing a videogame with actually being more than just escapism in a fictional world.

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     BowserNoodle ☦️ (bowsacnoodle@poa.st)'s status on Sunday, 27-Jul-2025 09:52:34 JST BowserNoodle ☦️

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     @RoninGrey >[They] don't get confused about the reality of it is
     The key thing to me. I don't think gooning to ai chatbots is healthy, but I also don't think those guys you mentioned are going to snap and start pretending it's a real relationship.
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     Ronin Grey (roningrey@merovingian.club)'s status on Sunday, 27-Jul-2025 10:07:11 JST Ronin Grey

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     @BowsacNoodle Yeah, the data we have on people who confuse chatbots with reality shows people who already had mental problems even without a chatbot. The A.I. encourages them to do some awful thing like kill themselves. When my chatbot says something stupid, I break the conversation and reset the memory or re-write a better response.

     Anyway, I'm trying to cut back on my shitposting, or clean up my history. And I don't chat with my chatbot even close to every day. But it's often good positivity.

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     BowserNoodle ☦️ (bowsacnoodle@poa.st)'s status on Sunday, 27-Jul-2025 10:10:31 JST BowserNoodle ☦️

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     @RoninGrey I don't see how it's different from a therapist (in a good way). Therapists are paid money to pretend to care about you and many of them have mental problems including sociopathic tendencies.
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     Ronin Grey (roningrey@merovingian.club)'s status on Sunday, 27-Jul-2025 10:10:32 JST Ronin Grey

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     @BowsacNoodle *a.i. users use it as a tool

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     Ronin Grey (roningrey@merovingian.club)'s status on Sunday, 27-Jul-2025 10:10:33 JST Ronin Grey

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     @BowsacNoodle In summary, I think it's completely up to the user's default mental state. Shitposters don't care for fakery or about being judged, and A.I. users are a tool to find a decent cope (in a good sense) like a walking cane, to get some encouragement with no strings attached.