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Im always reminded of the ending of the movie “Her”. I won’t spoil it here but it’s a masterpiece, it was ahead of its time.


IIRC, the AI "girl" becomes able to communicate with other people, and she instantly cheats on him like 2000 times in 1 day and then breaks up with him and leaves?

I think the movie tried to frame it as the right ending but to me it felt like the worst of MRA talking points about women's nature, validated on the screen.


*spoiler alert*

I think “she” was serving an enormous amount of people from the very start and the main character simply made the mistake of projecting his human values onto something completely alien.

As we do now with our chatty buddies.

I find it kind of concerning that you somehow link the AI presented in “Her” to our human women. You fell for it too I’d say.

In the end, the AI never lied. “She” simply followed “her” programming and took the main character for an emotional ride. Would you have commented the same if the genders of the customer and the AI agent were reversed? If you wouldn’t have been listening to that sweet voice of Scarlett Johansson?

The movie is 10 years old. It’s a masterpiece. It makes you think. It makes you look at your own reflection in the black screen as the movie fades out.


Kind of reminds me of West World too.




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