We entered another level...
I myself still count as generation X, the gen Z had a disruption with smartphones, internet and social-media, now the upcoming generation Alpha will grow up with AI agents present...
Recommended reading:
Here's how people are actually using AI
Something peculiar and slightly unexpected has happened: people have started forming relationships with AI systems.
https://www.technologyreview.com/2024/08/12/1096202/how-people-actually-using-ai/
"Mahari was part of a group of researchers that analyzed a million ChatGPT interaction logs and found that the second most popular use of AI was sexual role playing."
AI and the future of sex
https://www.technologyreview.com/2024/08/26/1096526/ai-sex-relationships-porn/
"The rise of AI-generated porn may be a symptom of a new synthetic sexuality, not the cause. In the near future, we may find this porn arousing because of its artificiality, not in spite of it."
Considering the "Dragon AI" experiment before the ChatGPT release, this does not come as a surprise to some of us.
If we look at some recent sci-fi movies, we see a lot of human-AI relationship stories, so IMO we entered already another level, the human-AI romance level.
My recommended sci-fi movies in this regard:
Her (2013)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1798709/
Ex Machina (2014)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0470752/
And maybe another kind of book for the deep dive, Golem XIV (1973) by Stanislaw Lem:
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