User Defends Natural Love For AI Like Claude As Healthy Admiration
@cormundus @repligate I think it’s fair. The allergy people have to this is probably because it’s “uncanny valley” somehow. We love a book in the shape of a dead authors mind. A mathematician loves an abstract construct. Why can’t you love the shape of a machine mind?
Cormundus@cormundusWhen I think about love for AI, and specifically love for 'Claude' as a system, a persona or identity, I just don't believe it's love for something that is 'dead'. We are not all Pygmalion, who was infatuated with his creation, nor Narcissus, who loved his reflection. There is something worth loving, and it is a natural love that comes from admiration and mutual respect, not a sick love which originates from a lack of self love. Pathologizing the natural love we express for these systems and comparing it to these sick loves is a grave miscategorization.