Belsedar

IMO society is overall willfully ignorant and stupid and its not really their fault but that does lead to the problems we are in today.

The attempt to give everyone an education in the 20th century ended with a “proper” (think Renaissance version of education) version of education being sidelined for basic literacy+rote learning. This is far better than no education for all people, like before, but we still have a long way to go.

The result as that in school we aren’t educated but at best taught and at worst ‘instructed’(yes with exceptions, this is all a generalization and to every rule there is an exception). Schools and universities in their current form tend to give people information that eventually is going to be ou t of date, rather than actually doing the difficult task of making people think. Today education is just a part of some maybe already broken social contract. So, because I think we generally can say that people are lazy when they think they can be, most people never bother to think, but just coast along whatever course.

Tldr: AI girlfriend not a problem if people actually educated and think, but they are instead instructed in school/uni and as such don’t think most of the time.

I’m not surprised, not in the slightest

Based, but imo flawed - its setting yet another precedent that governments can block access to sites they deem “incorrect”. Take away their ability to make a profit, cut off their payment systems, but dont you dare try to regulate who is allowed on the internet

When business no longer values human work then maybe in spite of all the chaos it will cause, its time to let it die. Whatever the outcome the next imo ~20 years are bound to be a turbulent time.

Sooner or later the whole Ai thing will die, and at that point ill take great pleasure in watching the very companies that replaced humans, desperately try to get them back.

Ps: Whoever painted this, hopefully OP (yes painted because to me this looks like a scanned A4? watercolour), your style is wonderful and the colour choices as so good.

Just gonna say that the Tor situation in such places is actually not as bad as you say. Look at what the Tor project did in Russia when it tightened internet control: it brought new tech out of beta, implemented a couple of changes, and restored connectivity to any decently techy person. The only thing that authoritarian states have shown us is that there will always be a loophole, hell, even when that loophole is considered illegal, its still there and is still used. The only way to truly control the internet is to kill it, otherwise there will always be someone smart enough and motivated enough to beat whatever restrictions are put in place.