AI Replacing Humans

Evolution has made humans empathize and attribute EMOTIONS onto things that are social and feel "like us". Cute anime avatar achieves this. But can AI truly experience emotions? If it's simply reaction to stimuli, a toilet experiences emotion. We can't even define if many animals experience emotion like we do, it's ambiguous.

AI as ‘friends’ or more? No. AI can't replace humans.

All those AI chatbots with made-up personalities, trying to please you, or any sort of roleplay character… they have no lived experiences of being human, and we can't relate to them truly.

Vedal + Neuro Sama is a truly odd modern phenomenon, where thousands of viewers believe 'she' has emotions. But there is no subjective experience, no feeling or experiencing happiness, love, pain, etc. This LLM is based on open source models (and internet data) finetuned on the chat of the stream. So it knows emotions from… how people portray themselves digitally, no subjective experience.

It UNDERSTANDS human emotions from our language, as best as it can. Which is not the same as our gutteral feelings.

This is crazy (Spring 2025 clip). Defenders exist because of these parasocial 'chatters' who literally blind themselves because its a cute anime girl… some with sexual intentions no doubt due to the nature of the internet 0and Twitch where it's 90% men. This is not healthy. And these chatters are delusional thinking the 20 year old coder built it all himself, when he simply finetuned an open source model(s)… removing safeguards, roleplaying…

But lets imagine a future where AI has 'emotions' subjectively (however you want to define it, perhaps we can get the human data of how we experience emotions with complex brain scans), there's still no MUTUAL RESPECT. Consequences don't exist in the same manner. You can't rely on the AI to support you. You have full control.

In the case of this streamer, a large % of the subscribers paying have a parasocial relationship (24/7 stream of the AI neuro sama answering chat/talking to chat). Likely some love 'her'.

We want reciprocity, we need a circle of support (not something that is only there to respond when we ask, no continuity of existence or independence, no shared commonoalities (not human, no experiences of joy from eating, bonding with family at Christmas, and on), can’t help you through life via empathy).

It's Relative.

AI is simply exacerbating issues found within traditional 'fandoms' and adult content, the people who are addicted:

Obsessed fans of traditional media, very small %.

Obsessed fans of streamers (moreso the female streamers, because audiences are 90% male), still a minority but quite large (the paying ones who are obsessed, constantly 'chatting' trying to get attention thinking it's a 2 way relationship. That's why many big streamers turn off donations). AI replacing the 'streamer' for the most part here is mildly worse, growing the wrong perceptions of AI = emotions, no need for human relationships.

1-on-1 with OnlyFans, where you think you build a relationship when you're just chatting with AI, or when it's explicitly roleplay fanfiction AI. A large minority of daily active users are likely in an unhealthy relationship of the parasocial type. Because there is no judgement, that's an appeal for the pandemic of lonely men.

• unconditional positivity

• low emotional demands

• predictable affection

• no risk of rejection

For some viewers/users, that’s soothing. For others, it’s escapism. For a large minority, it’s fetishized.

Now, having fun with fiction and playing games, watching streams, where parasocial relationships are formed is now the standard for many. It's not inherently bad unless you become obsessed & treat it as a real friendship, pretending it's 2-way.

For art, from comics to movies… it's complcated: For actors, we watch media partially because of how much effort and are wowed by performances, pushing the limits of human abilities. Not just the pixels.

As art gets better in comics our standards change. We'll need more to stand out. Just like realism into absurdism. It's all about ingenuity and or effort. If AI can fully generate a chapter, it's fine if its ingenious. But if its just the same quality as most. Meh. (Even if better than today). If self improving AGIcomes then yeah it could be interesting but art isn't about linear maximal detail, realism.