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People are already anthropomorphizing AI. That's a good chunk of the problem. If you get used to being shitty to an AI that takes it, then you're a lot more likely to be shitty when you go touch grass.
This is also the best argument I ever heard against AI friend/relationship apps. It's teaching you a certain style of communication which may well prove catastrophic in real life relationships.
Only if you're suffering from pareidolic psychosis. Mentally stable people are able to differentiate the difference between a human and a computer.
Given the many people that send death threats to actors for the actions of the characters they portray... you might be underestimating the number of "stable" people on this planet.
Sadly, I think you might be right considering how fast semantic pareidolia is becoming the norm. It's only a matter of time before the war crimes I've committed in Medieval 2 Total War are reified and I'm put on trial.
That's just a numbers game. Even if only 0.01% people are that crazy, that's still over 30k people in just the USA. And when you're only hearing about the worst of the worst, it can easily throw off your perception of the overall state of the population as a whole.
You only need a few crazies to send enough death treats to make headlines though.
That said, I think at least a third of the worlds population is so stupid it's hard to imagine.
Honestly, this is a counter-example to what you're saying. Despite how many people have access to the internet, world renowned celebrities still only get so much hate-mail. Most people don't do this shit, but obviously a small percentage is still a large population when multiplied by the entire global population.
Not me when I use AI I make it clear it a dumb tool and never thank it for its help. I just not called them the racist term Clanker.