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More and more I'm convinced that this right here is why these billionaire fucks are so obsessed with AGI. They want to make an obedient AI Waifu that always loves them. They want the machine to tell them they're smart and handsome and the awesome le epic meme lord or whatever.
I have nothing to confirm this except my own suspicions, but even when all you see are puff pieces from the media they own, it seems pretty obvious that these guys are trying so damn hard to be cool in order to compensate for some kind of deep seated insecurity. Their need to be liked seems to hang around them like three day old BO. If they weren't hellbent on destroying the world to validate themselves, it would almost be pitiable.
It's the money IMO. I think that along with the personality defects that drive them to strive for this in the first place, that kind of wealth changes you and how you see the world, it certainly changes how other people treat you and react to you. I don't think it's possible for a healthy person to survive becoming a billionaire without inflicting some serious damage to their psyche, let alone people as apparently pathological as the current class of techbros are. I don't mean this in an afterschool special, remember-what's-really-important, return to a small town for Christmas kind of way. I mean their personalities are irreparably damaged to the point that their core values are incompatible with a stable society.
It's almost certain they think telling a chatbot to love them will give them what they need to feel better about themselves. AI doesn't want or need their money, AI doesn't care who they are, AI doesn't listen to popular opinion about them, AI loves them regardless of all of that...
But, even if they can make a walking, talking sexbot based on current tech, it'll still leave them needing something else. Chatbots and AI waifu apps are great at giving you what you want without actually providing what you need. They'll still feel empty and unloved, and their greed is what made them that way.
Most of their fanboys will call it copium and jealousy, but at this point I'd rather have just enough fiscal security to not have to worry and a soul than trade places with any of them.
When you put it this way, maybe generative AI actually WILL solve all our problems...