https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2022/0 ... pert-says/..So says a report by The Telegraph, which states these fake children would be the product of artificial intelligence (AI), and would reside within so-called “metaverse” realms, the likes of which are being worked on right now by big tech moguls such as Mark Zuckerberg.
Researcher Catriona Campbell expects that such fake AI children will become extremely popular within the next 50 years as popular sentiment gives way to malthusian views, with individuals opting to distract themselves with fake alternatives to children instead of actually raising offspring themselves.
...“Virtual children may seem like a giant leap from where we are now, but within 50 years technology will have advanced to such an extent that babies which exist in the metaverse are indistinct from those in the real world,” the publication reports Cambell as saying in her book “AI by Design: A Plan For Living With Artificial Intelligence”, which it says will be hitting shelves this week.
“As the metaverse evolves, I can see virtual children becoming an accepted and fully embraced part of society in much of the developed world,” she continues. “We’re already well on our way to creating the Tamagotchi generation which, for all intents and purposes, will be ‘real’ to their parents.”
FFS anything to hock a book...
EDIT: "Cheap to raise!" /s Maybe if you don't 'raise' the [AI]child in complete compliance with Meta guidelines the activist [AI] child could opt to have [AI] parents and 'sue' the RL user parent to still pay fees [AI child support]. Better read the fine print of the user agreement /s /edit'Tamagotchi children' who don’t exist could 'solve population problem'
Virtual offspring could become fully accepted in society, would be cheap to raise and don't even have to grow up
https://archive.ph/DKq1W
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2022/0 ... n-problem/
One can predict the twisted mental illness reality of it:
Parents neglect RL kids to spend time with AI metaverse creations, then lecture RL kids, "Why can't you be a good kid like [AI] Johnny?"
or ..."How dare you mispronoun my [AI] child?"
The plus side... no one will have a baby that looks like an adult tax accountant...
(sorry to the proud mom 
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