{"id":588429,"date":"2025-11-23T08:51:18","date_gmt":"2025-11-23T08:51:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/588429\/"},"modified":"2025-11-23T08:51:18","modified_gmt":"2025-11-23T08:51:18","slug":"big-tech-has-our-attention-and-now-it-wants-our-affection-we-must-resist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/588429\/","title":{"rendered":"Big tech has our attention and now it wants our affection. We must resist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p role=\"text\" tabindex=\"0\" class=\"is_Paragraph font_caslonIonic _dsp-inline _bxs-border-box _ww-break-word _mt-0px _mr-0px _mb-0px _ml-0px _ff-f-family _fw-f-weight-3048 _fs-f-size-18 _lh-f-lineHeigh3500605 _col-c-grey_600 _select-auto _ws-normal\">If the first wave of big tech captured our attention, this next one \ufeffseeks to capture our affection. Think of AI companions that whisper back exactly what we want to hear. Think of AI porn that\u2019s hyper-personalised, on-demand, and increasingly interactive. AI could be for human relationships what junk food is to nourishment. And these systems will not just exploit our desires, but reshape them. In the process,, the most intimate parts of our humanity \u2013 our capacity for love, curiosity\ufeff, empathy \u2013will be optimised for profit. The risk is not just that we will lose control of our machines, but that we will lose control of ourselves.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"If the first wave of big tech captured our attention, this next one \ufeffseeks to capture our affection.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":588430,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3163],"tags":[323,1942,53,11390,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-588429","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-artificial-intelligence","8":"tag-ai","9":"tag-artificial-intelligence","10":"tag-technology","11":"tag-teenagers","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/588429","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=588429"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/588429\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/588430"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=588429"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=588429"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=588429"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}