Over one third (36%) of boys admitted they prefer speaking to AI chatbots over family and friends.
  • akilou@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    2 hours

    This statstic is meaningless. They could all know the same kid in the chatbot relationship. Unlikely but still, just because “one in five” know someone who… Doesn’t mean 20% of kids are in one.

  • thanksforallthefish@literature.cafeEnglish
    3 hours

    Press X to doubt on that headline.

    The article doesn’t support it. My teen son’s response (we’re in the UK): “bullshit”

    Clickbait imnsho.

  • NOT_RICK@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3 hours

    Someone who is under the delusion that they’re in a relationship with an AI chatbot

  • bleistift2@sopuli.xyzEnglish
    4 hours

    I wonder how many AI-relationships it actually takes to get 20% of a network to know one of them.

  • leoj@piefed.zipEnglish
    3 hours

    Sample size of “over 1 thousand”, feels meaningfully meaningless.