Obviously I agree with you, but it's a brief question that was asked of high schoolers ("have you or a friend of yours interacted with AI to have a romantic relationship" or something to that effect) which, being high schoolers, could have been interpreted in a billion ways.

Not saying this isn't a problem to watch out for and curb, but this same evidence could easily be interpreted as "gosh, a minority of the young computer nerds are using the computer for porn."

"1 in 5 high schoolers know *someone* who has used AI for porny things." And dense high school networks being what they are, that could mean really 1 in 50 students are actually partaking in that activity. (The activity being anything from virtual sex to long term flirting to whatever.)

Just read the study, which sort of found that the more high school students use AI generally, the more they use (or know people who use) it for specific things.

The way the survey Q is written, the implications here can be anything from "1 in 5 students are replacing partners with chatbots" to

Sigh.

Haven't seen that (but of course wouldn't be surprised). Is there news about that circulating?

ugggh that is a good answer but also why do words have no meaning?? next thing you'll tell me is there is no such thing as pachyderms!

this is a good one. wirecutter sadly offered no good ones

I agree that NYT is a better source of news than bsky, and than me! I'm just some random person on the internet, nobody should trust me without verifying information elsewhere. People put away too much trust in random social media threads.

Ah, sorry friend, I assumed you were asking a question in good faith! Have an awesome day.