We need to notice and think about this. It reveals that an open-ended acceptance of "AI" into human society is already the default.
We got here step-by-step over many decades, and centuries; and indeed all online communities (such as you, reading this) are already many steps along the way -- but general, consensus, default AI-acceptance brings us all the way.
We Have Arrived.
What this means is that there is here-and-now a consensus (which may itself be mostly artificial) that it already is (and indeed should be) fine and normal for individual human beings to interact (inevitably personally) indiscriminately with some unknown and unknowable mixture of other-humans and AI entities and products.
The key concept is "interact".
From my perspective; this implicitly amounts to a denial of the ultimate reality and existential significance of this mortal life.
Which is, of course, a great victory for the powers of purposive evil.
And such a situation is not some future possible dystopian bogeyman state that may happen "if we are not careful" - for many, many people this is how things already are.
For some of these people (and I suspect this has always been the case), I think there never has been any genuine inner distinction between interacting with other real beings, and with simulated-Beings (with projections, for instance) - because such people are ultimately solipsistic: they only really "believe in" themselves.
But there seem to be more and more such people; because they are numerous and strong enough to demand that anyone who does not want to become one of them, must justify "why not".
When you are in a situation of trying to convince others "why not?" go along with their plans for you - you have already and decisively lost the rhetorical war; the battle of Public Relations.
...At which point you either give-up and join the downslide to damnation; or else effectively fight-back: maybe materially, certainly spiritually.
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