Algorithmic Intimacy – self-love, liability and babies as click bait

30/07/2023 29 min
Algorithmic Intimacy – self-love, liability and babies as click bait

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Chatbots and other forms of interactive AI aren't just shaping our online preferences, they're gradually redefining the contours of what we mean by love, sexuality and intimacy. Sociologist Anthony Elliott warns the impacts will be society-wide, not just personal. Also, do we need a set of general principles for managing chatbot liability in the absence of regulation? And how the rights of children are being overlooked in the hyper-contructed world of the "momfluencer".