as someone who was once a lonely teenager who used the internet and fandoms to cope, i feel so awful for those like that right now who are gonna be affected by the UK's social media ban for teens.
i totally get what they're trying to do, but they went about it the wrong way.
Artificial intelligences do not undergo experiences, do not possess a body, do not feel joy or pain, do not mature through relationships, and do not know from within what love, work, friendship or responsibility mean. Nor do they have a moral conscience, since they do not judge good and evil, grasp the ultimate meaning of situations, or bear responsibility for consequences. They may imitate or even simulate, but they do not understand what they produce, for they lack the affective, relational, and spiritual perspective through which human beings grow in wisdom. #MagnificaHumanitas
parasocialism, cancel culture, a decline of critical thinking skills, and the rise of AI has genuinely ruined fan spaces online and it has been so sad to witness in real time.