Tech Bros Stole My Friend: Faux-Social LLMs Meet the Market

Sometimes even I, as an ardent Luddite, wish AI companies would be slower in driving their own failure. Recently I've been working on a paper relating to faux-social LLMs - those which mimic relationships, therapy, care etc. In part of the paper I suggest viewing those 'relationships' built with LLMs as toxic or insecure in part because whatever a user can experience from them (which isn't a lot…