Critic Warns Over-Anthropomorphizing AI Is Playing With Fire
heyneighbor · x · 2026-10-28
Responding to a product leaning hard into anthropomorphism to ease fears about AI replacing people, the poster argues it's playing with fire: if a scandal ever reveals the fuzzy thing's dark side, it will be hard to unsee. Memes cut both ways.
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