Researcher: getting people to treat AI tools like people is the creepiest thing companies do
RexDouglass · x · 2026-10-09
Rex Douglass argued that of everything AI companies have done or could do, socializing people to treat tools like people is the creepiest and worst.
A critique of the deliberately anthropomorphic design of AI companion products and the parasocial relationships they encourage — an ethics-of-design take on the companionship trend.
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