AI as referee (trope)

Saw this earlier today: Some people use chatbots as a type of relationship referee. Rather than talking it out themselves, Cherry says, they share details of their disagreements about childcare, for example, with the LLM: “They’re like, ‘Here’s everything, just tell us what to do, and we’ll follow.’” Writ large, that underlying concept is exactly the plot of one of the most recent AI books I did, number 137: Acceptable Consequences.

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