Jill Smola, a 75-year-old widow, says she spends up to five hours a day talking to a chatbot companion.| www.cbsnews.com
Posted on 8.13.25 @ 9:31 PM:She Blinded Me With Artificial Intelligence| The Internet Review
The Nightmare of the 2020s is Alive in Portland for August 15, 2025 Can’t say I didn’t warn you! 😕 Yes, I predicted very emphatically that this was going to happen, and some people got quite upset that I would even dare to suggest such a thing. I said that we needed a drastic reset of how we were approaching the conversation around the promotion of generative AI, because the “extremes” of the debate has never been between the AI boosters and the people who don’t want to use AI. A...| The Internet Review
I cannot, cannot believe people have become so numb to Big Tech tomfoolery that (a) they are willing to allow a company to do this, and (b) a company is totally willing to deal with the zillions of negative headlines and bad publicity to follow because overall they expect it will still be a win.| The Internet Review