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"Texting a stranger is better for reducing loneliness than an AI chatbot, study finds"

From CTV News: https://www.ctvnews.ca/vancouver/article/texting-a-stranger-is-better-for-reducing-loneliness-than-an-ai-chatbot-study-finds/

"The study found that only those who texted with a fellow human reported feeling less lonely at the end of the experiment.

'We thought that interacting with AI might be as helpful as texting with a random fellow first-year student,' said the study’s author, psychology PhD candidate Ruo-Ning Li, in a media release.

'But to our surprise, only the human-to-human texting reduced loneliness over time. The chatbot, even though we designed it to be the ideal supportive friend, didn’t shift loneliness.'"

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Texting a stranger is better for reducing loneliness than an AI chatbot, study finds

In a time where more people are reporting feeling lonely and some are turning to AI chatbots for companionship, a new study suggests that texting a real person, even a stranger, leads to better results.

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"Texting a stranger is better for reducing loneliness than an AI chatbot..."

Gods....🙄

Any "stranger" could well BE a chatbot today--and probably a better trained one than they used in this study. And the human on the other end might well never realize it. And, yes. STILL BAD.

The cure for loneliness? Other flesh and blood people! There is literally no mentally healthy substitute -online- for real life associations *in real life*. You're a human, not a bot w/ probs..

Apr 6 at 7:52pmWeb