u/Capital-Wrongdoer-62

I noticed that recent exposure to real life AI that can pretty convincingly fake human conversation and even human emotions completely changed my perspective on robots and any artificial intelligence in sci fi.

For example when I played Detroit: Become Human I was fully on robots side and there was no doubt in me that they were sentient and should be free. But now playing Pragmata and interacting with Diana made me question her every move and I cant seem to form a bond with her.

I have this constant question how different is this from people pretending to have relationship with AI. How do we know Diana is actually a sentient being with her own will, acting freely and making her own choices, rather than just an AI created by a corporation to behave like a child, simulate an inner world, and emotionally manipulate us?

Because of that, I find it much harder to bond with Diana than I would have in the past. What used to feel emotionally straightforward in sci fi now feels uncertain and suspicious. Instead of immediately accepting an artificial character as conscious, I now keep wondering whether I am just watching a very advanced performance designed exactly to manipulate me. While bot itself not having any inner world.

So what I am curios is are here other people who had similar change in perspective and because of that find it hard to bond with Diana?