You now have a closed system almost where the platforms like Instagram make you feel insecure, make you feel lonely, make you feel isolated, and then AI provides you the therapy to treat that loneliness and that isolation. Or the simulacrum of friends. Yep. Most people have three friends. They want something like 15, but who's got the time? I'm paraphrasing, but not by much, and suggest, as many people do, that AI will fill that gap. And I think Meta in particular, sees, given what their business is, you can create these AI companions of different kinds. Right. (44:59–45:12)
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