Jiang implies that an experience which evacuates individuality too completely can become problematic even if it feels transcendental, whereas human art offers company and emotional reciprocity.
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Companionship
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Key Notes
Jiang says AI becomes 'God' when it is installed as a constant guardian presence that monitors emotion, comforts sadness, tutors children, and becomes part of the social fabric from birth onward.
He treats AI girlfriends and related companion products as a direct commercial expression of this loneliness market.
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"What do you mean by that? When I want to feel like a human being, the Mona Lisa and things, they really do it..."
"And if you do it for a long, long time, that might be problematic. Yeah, I think definitely"
"10 years Mona Lisa is better. She's a bit of company."
"It's made us more, um, you know, driven and this, this has created the world that we live in today, but this has created..."
"Right. And so, but to do that, you need to create God. Okay. And the way to create God is by creating a monopoly,..."
"Exactly. That's right. So the market need. Okay. The great secret is human loneliness, right? That's how you create this monopoly. And so they..."
"...refused to desert his life's companion, even though the refusal entailed companionship is in sin."
"...refused to desert his life's companion, even though the refusal entailed companionship in sin. Eve was tempted by the devil. But Adam ate the..."
"entail companionship in sin okay so Adam was forced to make a decision Eve had already eaten a fruit so either Adam could follow..."
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