This is a YouTube video titled "We Don’t Need More Synthetic People—We Need More Connection" created in July 2025. The content features a speaker discussing the trend of building AI-driven synthetic people in various roles and emphasizes the importance of real human connection and community over synthetic interactions.
We want and need to build software using AI, but with a twist. And the twist is software and AI that is only there to help people meet and build relationships with other real human beings. Now we're moving from social to what I would call synthetic people. Synthetic friends, partners, doctors, lawyers, nurses. There is a rush to build a fully synthetic version of these roles. Here's the thing with these synthetic people. The more time we spend with synthetic people, the worse we get at being in community with real people, without the kind of people magic that we are so passionate about here at Mighty Hours.
