The Surprising Benefits of Conversing with Digital Clones

30 Dec 2024 · 1 min

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A short YouTube video (speaker: TJ Walker) discussing benefits of interacting with digital clones. Walker observes that some people prefer engaging with his digital clone — citing availability (they can call it at 3 a.m.) and lowered social risk (users feel freer to reveal insecurities because the clone is not a real human). He notes this effect appears in therapy and psychiatric contexts where people sometimes prefer talking to a computer/AI.

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And I can tell you right now, already there are people who enjoy interacting with my clone more than they want to talk to me because they know they can call my clone at three in the morning and I'll be asleep. They also know certain thing they like about a clone is they feel a little freer to reveal insecurities and their lack of confidence because it's not really a real human being. In some ways, that's better. And the people who are in the therapy space and the psychiatric space are finding that true as well. People actually prefer sometimes talking to a computer into an AI.