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Young Chinese turn to AI pets for emotional relief

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By Mary Yang and Emily Wang

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This is Chinese society today

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The Japanese were already doing this about 20 years ago with Sony Aibo.

Nice to know the china-nese have finally caught up with Japanese tech. Albeit with lower quality products.

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You know, given how paranoid the ccp is about its own people, I wouldn't be surprised if they use these 'AI Pets' to spy own their own people.

Wouldn't be surprised also if china-nese employers ( esp government employers) have access to what these AI Spybots have recorded & these employers refuse to hire those that they deemed to be emotionally unstable.

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At least the AI pets won't be taken by the CCP "COVID police" and killed, as happened to far too many pets in China during their 3 yrs locked down. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-59249485

23/1/2020 - 25/1/2023 was the Chinese lockdown period, so I'm not exaggerating.

Normal citizens in all countries need to hold their govts accountable for actions like this.

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