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

MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

• OwOarchist@pawb.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  And wasn’t China very recently concerned about their birthrate being too high? One Child Policy?

  Now they’re already concerned about their birth rate being too low?

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  • PonyOfWar@pawb.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    The one-child policy was abolished in 2015, but birth rates have continued to decline after that. They currently have one of the world’s lowest fertility rates.

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    • DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      It’s crazy, like overpopulation, stress, and pollution mean people don’t want kids or something.

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  • CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    They were wrong, and they know it, but also you’re not allowed to say that.

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• DeLancre@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  You probably joking, but that actually a thing in China and was a thing in USSR

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  • Trev625@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    It says that it was proposed… We propose a lot of bills that never pass here in the US. I’m not sure how China’s laws are setup but Wikipedia doesn’t say that it was ever implemented.

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  • morto@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    6% of income? Still much cheaper than a kid!

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• SocialistVibes01@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Is that your take on the matter? How is wanting yo promote real human relationships between teenagers a bad thing?

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  • MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    This is like trying to solve mental illness by making the sickness illegal.

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    • Zos_Kia@jlai.lu ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      I’d say that’s more like trying to solve mental illness by making it illegal to exploit and profit from it

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    • tal@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erewhon

      Erewhon: or, Over the Range (/ˈɛr.ɛ.hwɒn/, ERR-eh-hwon)[2] is a utopian novel by English writer Samuel Butler, first published in 1872,[3] set in a fictional country discovered and explored by the protagonist. The book is a satire on Victorian society.[4]

      In Erewhon, illness is crime and crime is illness. As a result, citizens are imprisoned for offenses like physical ailments, misfortune, or ugliness while those who commit conventional crimes like fraud or theft are seen more sympathetically as exhibiting symptoms of moral afflictions and prescribed sessions with a “straightener” (essentially a psychologist) for treatment.[5]

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      • Powderhorn@beehaw.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        That is suspiciously close to “Nowhere” spelled backward.

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    • SocialistVibes01@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      So I guess you’re pretty fine with the pedo/misogynist/nazi/bullying shit happening the Discord servers.

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      • MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        “You hate hotdogs? YOU MUST LOVE BURGERS THEN”

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      • undefined@lemmy.hogru.ch ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        What do Discord servers have to do with anything??

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  • Laser@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    I’m pretty sure AI partners are not the primary reason people don’t have human partners. The issues are systematic and root very deeply. While I do think AI partners are a very toxic and dangerous way out of this, I highly doubt they were the reason people were single in the first place.

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    • SocialistVibes01@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      I’m pretty sure alcohool is not the primary reason people don’t drive responsibly. The issues are systematic and root very deeply. While I do think driving while drunk is a very toxic and dangerous way out of this, I highly doubt they were the reason people were caught ebrious in the first place.

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      • sukhmel@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        You’re joking, but people drive under influence not because alcohol exists, but because they have issues with self-control and responsibility.

        So you do prove a point while trying to oppose it, imo

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