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[–] 7 points 1 month ago (3 children)

My 83 year old grandmother with budding dementia watches nonstop AI generated stories set in pre-industrial times on YouTube, only second to court TV. She says it’s comforting, and she just wants to be entertained with content that feels like the same thing.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 month ago (2 children)

    Meanwhile her perceptions are being shaped by those comfortable fictions. Worse than written fiction? Who knows, we're all test subjects at this point.

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