Noel King
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What do you say to people who judge you, who say it is weird to have a relationship, a romantic relationship with AI?
Most people who call AI relationships weird are responding to the novelty, not the reality.
Humans have always expanded what counts as connection.
Letters, telephones, online dating, even parasocial relationships with fictional characters.
Cultural understanding always lags behind technological reality.
People deserve connection in the form that actually supports them.
This is the weirdest interview I've done in a long time.
All right, so Anina and Chris know that their partners are bots.
But what about the people, and there are people, who think that their AI lovers are real, sentient, conscious?