tell me you had a neglected childhood without telling me you had a neglected childhood.

These “AI product solutions” are just a cry for help from these founders to go to therapy. Our world would be 1,000% different if we forced the Big Tech bros to go to therapy instead of inflict their childhood (& homophobic) harm on us.

It's like the doll the graue Herren try to give to Momo.

(Don't know if that is popular outside of German, it's a really great story about your life being stolen by capitalists.)

@jankhambrams I’m kinda sickened over here that this product is targeted at parents whose response to a lonely child is to give it a thing to talk to instead of, you know, talking to and comforting their child and helping them find real friends.

It panders to neglectful parenting, normalizing it. So gross.

It makes me think of those poor baby monkeys in that awful experiment, who just got a wire mother with a bottle to suck from. Since they were denied access to their actual parents, they clung when they could to a wire thing covered in fake fur like a stuffed animal, even though the experimenters didn’t feed it from that one. This was supposed to prove something extremely obvious that was somehow not “these (white male) researchers were heartless.” 🙄

And it’s actually WAY WORSE than it sounds:
simplypsychology.org/harlow-mo….

Harry Harlow Monkey Experiments: Cloth Mother vs Wire Mother

In Harlow's experiment, baby monkeys preferred a soft, cloth "mother" over a wire one, even when the wire "mother" provided food. This demonstrated the importance of comfort and affection in attachment, beyond just basic needs like nourishment.

^{Saul McLeod, PhD (Simply Psychology)}