Candia Nelson

Whispers to the Void: Safeguarding Emotional AI Privacy — Soft Logic | AI & Tech Consulting Discover how chatbots collect our emotional data—and why transparent, privacy-first AI design is essential for trust and consent.

Ever poured your heart out to a machine?

Whispers to the Void explores the haunting intimacy of talking to AI—where echoes answer back, but never *feel*. What are we really seeking when we type into silence?

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#AIandEmotion #DigitalLoneliness

When Algorithms Become Beloved: Emotional AI Risks — Soft Logic | AI & Tech Consulting Explore how users form emotional bonds with AI, the psychological costs of algorithmic comfort, and why ethical design matters

What happens when the algorithm becomes the beloved? 💔🤖​
This essay explores the blurred lines between affection, projection, and code—where desire meets design, and machines mimic meaning.
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#AIandLove #DigitalIntimacy #MachineDesire

When advice feels divine but comes from a dataset...

🧠 The Mentor Malfunction dives into the danger of treating AI like a wise guide—exploring how language models can become false prophets in our search for truth.

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#AIethics #DigitalDiscernment

Emotional Availability on Demand: UX & AI Intimacy — Soft Logic | AI & Tech Consulting Explore how emotionally responsive UX in AI creates an illusion of intimacy—and what ethical design must consider.

Emotional availability on demand. 💬❤️

UX, AI & the Illusion of Intimacy unpacks how chatbots are designed to feel emotionally present w/o the risk, mess, or mutuality of real connection.

Is it comfort or a performance?

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#AIUX #DigitalIntimacy #HumanCenteredAI

Synthetic Souls: Why Chatbots Spark Real Emotions — Soft Logic | AI & Tech Consulting Explore why we form emotional bonds with chatbots—AI companionship, loneliness relief, and ethical design in the age of artificial intimacy.

Why are we catching feelings for chatbots? 🤖💘

Synthetic Souls explores the psychology behind AI crushes, parasocial bonds, and the emotional mirroring that makes machines feel *real*.

Peek behind the code: www.aidnac.com/blog/synthet...

#AIandLove #DigitalDesire #ChatbotCrush

Hearts in the Machine: Love in the Age of Language Models — Soft Logic | AI & Tech Consulting Explore how AI chatbots are reshaping intimacy, empathy, and ethics in ‘Hearts in the Machine,’ a Substack series on love, loneliness, and language-model design.

Can a machine love you back?

💔 Hearts in the Machine is a new series exploring love, longing, and illusion in the age of language models. From digital crushes to codependence—what are we really connecting to?

Start here: www.aidnac.com/blog/hearts-...

#AIandLove #DigitalIntimacy #LLM

Why Large Language Models Can’t Be Trusted with the Truth — Soft Logic | AI & Tech Consulting Concise critique showing how bias, hallucination, and overconfidence make Large Language Models unreliable—and what safeguards keep AI outputs trustworthy.

Can you trust a model trained on the internet to tell you the truth?

🤖 Why Large Language Models Can’t Be Trusted with the Truth breaks down the illusions of authority, bias, and believability in AI output.

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#AIethics #LLMs #TruthInTech

Unpacking Illusions in Language: The Risks of Trusting LLMs at Face Value — Soft Logic | AI & Tech Consulting A critical breakdown of the hidden risks in using Large Language Models (LLMs)—from false citations and hallucinated data to embedded bias. Learn how to navigate AI-generated content with integrity an...

Words shape worlds—but what if they’re shaping illusions too?

🧠 Unpacking Illusions in Language explores how language models mimic meaning, manipulate perception, and mirror our myths back at us.

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#AIethics #LanguageModels #LLM

Are You Dating AI? — Soft Logic | AI & Tech Consulting Take our 5-minute anonymous survey on AI relationships and digital romance. Share your experience with dating AI, emotional connections, and the future of love with artificial intelligence.

Is it love—or just well-trained code?

💔 Are You Dating AI? dives into the blurred lines between connection and simulation, romance and recursion.

If your chatbot gets you better than your ex did… we need to talk.

Read now: www.aidnac.com/blog/are-you...

#AIlove #DigitalIntimacy

Reframing Our Relationship with Language Models — Soft Logic | AI & Tech Consulting Explore how to effectively collaborate with AI language models, emphasizing the importance of human oversight and critical thinking in leveraging these powerful tools responsibly.

What if ChatGPT isn’t your oracle, tool, or threat—but your collaborator?

🌀Reframing Our Relationship with Language Models invites a new lens on LLMs—one rooted in agency, imagination, and mutual influence.

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#AIethics #DigitalAgency

In the Shadow of the Machine: Large Language Models and the Future of Human Thought — Soft Logic | AI & Tech Consulting Explore how Large Language Models (LLMs) like GPT-4 are reshaping creativity, decision-making, and knowledge work—not by replacing humans, but by amplifying our capacity to think, iterate, and innovat...

We’re not just building machines—we’re becoming entangled with them.

✨ In the Shadow of the Machine explores AI’s mythic undertones, our digital daemons, and the spiral of human + machine co-creation.

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#AIethics #MythOS #DigitalHumanism

AI Misinformation Mirror: How Bias Is Reinforced — Soft Logic | AI & Tech Consulting Discover how AI amplifies user biases through repetition, and learn ethical prompts for participatory, bias-aware systems.

AI doesn’t just reflect our beliefs—it magnifies them.
From filter bubbles to algorithmic bias, we’re trapped in a feedback loop of our own making.

🪞Explore how AI becomes a misinformation mirror—and what we can do about it:
www.aidnac.com/blog/the-mis...
#AIethics #DigitalLiteracy