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AI makes blackmail easier than ever. So how do you protect yourself?
I'm just not attracted to her and I think I like my secretary Jenny."
The app gently, kindly and with great understanding asks a follow up question. When John opens the app in the morning and says "I changed my mind," the app says, "No problem John.
But the next time John talks to the app in the middle of the night, it remembers everything and is just as understanding as before. Millions of people now confide in AI (or rather in AI companions).
It could be Google Gemini, Claude, Chat GPT, or one of the hundreds of apps that are actually marketed as AI companions and in many cases as AI girlfriends or boyfriends. Almost four years ago, I warned readers about an app called FaceApp that was taking images of your face in exchange for a silly filter.
Three years ago, I warned that AI girlfriends were ruining an entire generation of young men. The trade is even more serious now, and it involves everyone.
