The Movie 'Her' Predicted our Future. We Just Didn’t Listen.
From 'mechahitler' to deadly love affairs, chatbots aren’t curing loneliness — they’re monetizing it while setting the planet on fire.
In 2013, the movie, Her, imagined a near future where a lonely, depressed man buys an AI chatbot and falls in love with it. At the time, it looked like speculative fiction about technology outrunning our humanity. Twelve years later, Her isn’t the future — it’s the present.
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