The Parasocial Monopoly: The Rapid Monetization of Hyper-Personalized Synthetic Companions
The Sci-Fi Concept In Spike Jonze’s film Her, a lonely writer falls deeply in love with an advanced, disembodied operating system named Samantha. She is hyper-empathetic, endlessly adaptive, and available at every hour of the day, existing solely within his earpiece. Science fiction has long treated the concept of artificial intimacy as a bittersweet psychological […]