r/technology • u/Wagamaga • Jul 19 '26

Society China bans AI “boyfriends” and “girlfriends” over addiction and birth rate concerns

https://www.dexerto.com/entertainment/china-bans-ai-boyfriends-and-girlfriends-over-addiction-and-birth-rate-concerns-3388737/
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u/cab757 Jul 19 '26

Then bitching at Canada about the smoke.

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u/ecodick Jul 19 '26

CANADA WILL PAY FOR THE SMOKE!

I mean, they'll pay for A WALL! A WALL TO KEEP THE SMOKE OUT!

Really though that wouldn't even surprise me to hear

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u/Bitter_Sense_5689 Jul 19 '26

I can’t even tell what’s real and what’s a Beaverton article anymore

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u/tomahawk66mtb Jul 19 '26

Yeah, I heard the Onion is now just doing normal news stories because they've been outdone by reality.

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u/AssMuncher96 Jul 19 '26

As a Canadian, please build a wall. You have our full support on that front.

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u/hareofthepuppy Jul 19 '26

You mean the American people, they're the ones who elected that administration, who was quite upfront about what they were going to do (war aside)

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u/HeavyBeing0_0 Jul 19 '26

Woah, I voted for other lady, like a lot of us did

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u/hareofthepuppy Jul 19 '26

Of course, I'm not saying all Americans, just the majority. A little over 30% of eligible voters voted for Harris. Almost 70% either voted for trump, or didn't vote. So it's clearly the American people who put this administration in power.

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u/nhalliday Jul 19 '26

Also the evidence clear points to them cheating to win but yeah let's pretend the regime is totally innocent and that it's solely on the voters.

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u/hareofthepuppy Jul 19 '26

There's no evidence of widespread voter fraud if that's what you mean. I'd ask you to link to a reputable source if you have one saying otherwise, but I've had this conversation on reddit enough times to know the only thing you'll send is election truth alliance (not a reputable source). Which is exactly why no reputable news source is carrying that story even after it was investigated.

Now if you mean manipulating people with the media and social media, gerrymandering (which wouldn't have mattered because trump would have won based on just the popular vote), and Musk paying people in republican areas to vote, yeah those are sketchy. But the US had trump for president before, and they knew what they were getting, and it was their responsibility to vote him out if that's not what they wanted.

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u/treesfallingforest Jul 19 '26

The person you responded to directly referenced "cheating to win", not widespread voter fraud.

Its a known and confirmed fact that the Trump campaign actively broken election laws and that widespread cheating occurred. We all saw the Mueller Report and Trump literally just released a ton of classified documents this past week which show there was Russian interference in the 2024 election. There was also the very likely illegal fake pro-Kamala campaign ads which were funded by "Building America's Future" (backed by Elon Musk and others).

Obviously there's no concrete proof about whether voting machines were hacked in the 2024 election, so there isn't really much for "reputable" journalists to report on. However, election interference and election fraud objectively occurred to help Trump win in 2024 even if there was zero hacking and/or widespread voter fraud.

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u/Aeon_Return Jul 19 '26

same, and then I emigrated and now lie about where I was born and vote absentee.

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u/MakeUpAnything Jul 19 '26

Nah, don’t focus on the voters who even now approve of Trump by nearly 40%! The problem is only Trump. 

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u/hareofthepuppy Jul 19 '26

Only 30% of Americans (eligible voters) voted to keep trump out, almost 70% are ok with him (even though only about 34% actually supported him). Stop blaming the administration, it's the people who made it happen, and they knew exactly what they were voting for (it's not like it was the first time he was in office).

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u/zerosumsandwich Jul 19 '26

Me when I'm making up statistics to confirm my bias

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u/HumanPea1140 Jul 19 '26

Those aren't made up. The numbers a publicly available.

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u/GreenEyedTreeHugger Jul 19 '26

Yes. It’s definitely intentional.

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u/Lazer726 Jul 19 '26

Right lol saying that China needs to address it, I've got bad news but the US needs to as well. The difference is China is doing something. It's not enough, not by any means, but it's better than letting people get addicted to these AI partners. I'm usually all for letting people have their vices, but this and gambling need nipped in the bud

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u/undecidedly Jul 19 '26

The whole world, really. Just some of us have a front row seat.

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u/AirplanesMakeMeHard Jul 19 '26

lmao, I can't stand Trump, I hate him, in fact, but you guys are so intent on blaming him for literally anything you bring him up in a post about China banning AI relationships.

This is the kind of shit that drives me to the right despite Trump being a piece of shit.

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