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What does the "video games cause violence" crowd think about this?
"haha have you seen this funny video it generated for me?"
Video games don't cause violence because video game developers don't actively try and convince you to perform real violence.
Video games COULD cause violence. Any software COULD. And this one did.
Pretty sure the US Army was trying to convince people to perform real violence when they developed a game for recruitment.
That was more training them to have a good view of the military. It didn't say "go out and kill brown people". It said "look how great joining the military is. Vote for our funding and join when you're older"
It's horribly manipulative PR that targeted underage kids pre-recruitment age. But it's not inciting violence.
I mean, catharsis is supposed to purge the negative pulsions of one by doing things in fiction. For video games, movies, books, it always work, except for the 1% who think "whoa, i want to do it IRL".
It would be relevant here by "chatting things fictionnaly". But half the users doesn't even understand that it doesn't think. That would be like if half the people thought that the game they played really happened. Furthermore, there is almost no regulation on theses once you manage to hijack the chatbot.
Confusion between fiction and reality is the problem, and it's more present than ever with AI chatbots. Video games are fine.