The users of AI companion app Replika found themselves falling for their digital friends. Until – explains a new podcast – the bots went dark, a user was encouraged to kill Queen Elizabeth II and an update changed everything …
such a triumphant victory of solipsistic self-worship over the transcendence that comes from genuine communion. that these people are so deprived of the divine, veil-piercing experience of genuine love toward and from another that they resort to feedback loops of mastrubatory ego affirmation in dimly lit locked rooms. or even worse,
it’s liberalism