▲ 151 ▼ The AI Chatbots That Tech Companies Are Aggressively Pushing to Billions of Users Appear to Be Causing Serious Psychological Harms, New Research Finds (futurism.com) submitted 3 weeks ago by return2ozma@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world 29 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[–] corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 0 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 child) harms Have we forgotten how to pluralize mass nouns? Back to the 2nd grade with you! permalink fedilink source hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] addie@feddit.uk 5 points 3 weeks ago It's correct if they're talking about multiple different kinds of psychological harm - depression and psychosis, say. Much like if I go and buy both full-fat and semi-skimmed, then I'm buying milks; or if I'm checking the hardness of river and tap samples, then I'm testing waters. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] addie@feddit.uk 5 points 3 weeks ago It's correct if they're talking about multiple different kinds of psychological harm - depression and psychosis, say. Much like if I go and buy both full-fat and semi-skimmed, then I'm buying milks; or if I'm checking the hardness of river and tap samples, then I'm testing waters. permalink fedilink source parent