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By Constance T. Hull, Catholic Exchange, Feb. 2, 2024

Constance T. Hull is a wife, mother, homeschooler, and a graduate with an M.A. in Theology with an emphasis in philosophy.  …

 

I recently had to replace my MacBook of 6 years when it started to slowly die. I decided to return to a Windows based operating system, so I ordered a Dell. After setting it up, I was startled to see how much AI technology is available on the computer considering it was the basic model. In fact, new changes and updates seem to be added regularly at a startling pace. I recently saw an advertisement on YouTube about an AI “buddy” you could chat with depicting an impossibly beautiful woman—and obviously not real—and deep horror struck my heart as I began to think about all of the lonely young people in the world who could easily buy the lie that an AI “relationship” is real….

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