I personally hate the "thanks to AI you now can speak to your dead relatives" ones. Especially those ones which try to spin it like a personal story for the developer of the app. Oh shut up, you would sell your own mother for money. And also you are too late to jump on that bandwagon so get lost, we have enough of you leeches.

[–] T156@lemmy.world 16 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours ago) (2 children)

On a related note, I personally hate the AI partner/friend ones as well, where it's clearly preying on the lonely, insecure, or desperate. It's dastardly, dystopian, and frankly, quite sad. How many children's media show rich children as being quite miserable sods whose parents think that not having friendship can be resolved by buying their kids a friend?

You could easily see that being in a cyberpunk story, where you can rent a friend or partner from a megacorporation, but if you don't pay the rent, they'll be repossessed and deleted/destroyed. The data would be collected and used regardless.

[–] Avicenna@programming.dev 5 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago)

yeah was gonna mention those too but hate the relatives one even more passionately so focused on that.

[–] ReplicantBatty@lemmy.one 1 points 20 hours ago

That's a pretty cool idea for a story, actually. I'd totally steal that if I wasn't so lazy

[–] Bazoogle@lemmy.world 22 points 1 day ago (4 children)

Literally the exact plot of a black mirror episode.

[–] luciferofastora@feddit.org 11 points 23 hours ago

I swear there are some people watching Black Mirror and furiously taking notes

[–] yermaw@sh.itjust.works 9 points 1 day ago

And it was such a heartbreaking experience, I dont know who saw that and said yes daddy please.

[–] FrChazzz@lemmus.org 1 points 15 hours ago

Also the hit comedy Small Wonder that ran from 1985-1989?

I HATED that show.

[–] ttyybb@lemmy.world 1 points 19 hours ago

Well black mirror is a documentary