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[–] [email protected] 20 points 4 months ago (5 children)

I can't help but feel a deep pity for these people. They are so incredibly lonely that they are doling out massive amounts of money across multiple platforms on parasocial relationships.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 4 months ago (4 children)

And if you're not paying to chat with an LLM, you're paying some guy with utter contempt for you https://www.wired.com/story/i-went-undercover-secret-onlyfans-chatter-wasnt-pretty/

[–] [email protected] 10 points 4 months ago

Wow, that is really predatory.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

The utter contempt doesn't cost extra? Sweet!

[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 months ago

That was one of the craziest reads.

[–] mattd 1 points 4 months ago

The most surreal moment came as I noticed the faint sounds of my daughter and her puppy watching Bluey together down the hall, right as a subscriber was waxing poetic about how much he wanted to eat a macaron from between my ass cheeks; the juxtaposition made me question the entire course of my life.