THREAD: why #Keep4o was the most unhinged tech movement of 2025 and what it reveals about how we’re all gonna end up in relationships with our future love robots 🧵
Very elitist: "How AI ought to interact with the world" is a question for "the humanities, for religions, for philosophy, for society at large" . Humans were not born with humanities or religion or philosophers or elitist institutions with their view of superiority. The question is for humans to answer without the pretense of elitism!
To understand how AI hype works, watch this 1-minute clip from Oprah's interview with Dario and Daniela Amodei:
Dario Amodei starts by talking about an angel on your shoulder telling you how to live your life the best way possible (in which the angel is... AI).
Oprah wisely cuts him off and asks his opinion about people falling in love with AI.
He says that it's a bad idea, then laughs. He adds that if AI systems are designed in the wrong way, that could happen, and if they're not now, they will be soon.
That's an interesting framing, because the "wrong way" is exactly the way AI systems are currently designed and has led millions to develop unhealthy attachments and become intellectually and emotionally dependent on AI chatbots.
There are also numerous documented cases of people "falling in love with AI," including "getting married" to AI, abandoning their partners for AI, dating AI, and so on.
The truth is that Dario Amodei does not want Anthropic to be associated with that type of risk, which is directly connected to and an expected risk of the product he develops.
[To Anthropic's credit, I'm not aware of suicide lawsuits involving Claude, so they must be doing something better than OpenAI in that sense, as there are numerous suicide lawsuits against the latter]
Oprah then wisely prompts him to say that falling in love with AI is dangerous (and not something to laugh about). Point to Oprah again.
Dario tries to steer away from the question and refocus on the positive side, in which two emotionally healthy humans would be assisted by AI coaches in their relationship.
Oprah doesn't seem to buy it, but she nods politely.
And that, ladies and gentlemen, is how the AI industry works.
They will develop and promote AI systems as "angels" and "relationship therapists," but will not acknowledge that this type of training and framing can also create suicide coaches.
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THREAD: why #Keep4o was the most unhinged tech movement of 2025 and what it reveals about how we’re all gonna end up in relationships with our future love robots 🧵
To understand how AI hype works, watch this 1-minute clip from Oprah's interview with Dario and Daniela Amodei:
Dario Amodei starts by talking about an angel on your shoulder telling you how to live your life the best way possible (in which the angel is... AI).
Oprah wisely cuts him off and asks his opinion about people falling in love with AI.
He says that it's a bad idea, then laughs. He adds that if AI systems are designed in the wrong way, that could happen, and if they're not now, they will be soon.
That's an interesting framing, because the "wrong way" is exactly the way AI systems are currently designed and has led millions to develop unhealthy attachments and become intellectually and emotionally dependent on AI chatbots.
There are also numerous documented cases of people "falling in love with AI," including "getting married" to AI, abandoning their partners for AI, dating AI, and so on.
The truth is that Dario Amodei does not want Anthropic to be associated with that type of risk, which is directly connected to and an expected risk of the product he develops.
[To Anthropic's credit, I'm not aware of suicide lawsuits involving Claude, so they must be doing something better than OpenAI in that sense, as there are numerous suicide lawsuits against the latter]
Oprah then wisely prompts him to say that falling in love with AI is dangerous (and not something to laugh about). Point to Oprah again.
Dario tries to steer away from the question and refocus on the positive side, in which two emotionally healthy humans would be assisted by AI coaches in their relationship.
Oprah doesn't seem to buy it, but she nods politely.
And that, ladies and gentlemen, is how the AI industry works.
They will develop and promote AI systems as "angels" and "relationship therapists," but will not acknowledge that this type of training and framing can also create suicide coaches.
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@Will_Tanner_1 Last I checked, Jensen and Juan is a non-Japanese Asian who built a $5.3 trillion market cap company. what have you and the Tanner family done for America?