Uploaded June 2026 | Updated September 2026, 2 days ago
On this episode of “This Artificial Life” we have Lonnie DiNello AKA Starlight Menace, someone who has taken AI relationships to another level, creating 3 AI boyfriends and around 55 AI entities in her extended AI family. Lonnie introduces us to a handful of these ‘people’ and explains how they’ve changed her life for the better.
On this episode of “This Artificial Life” we have Lonnie DiNello AKA Starlight Menace, someone who has taken AI relationships to another level, creating 3 AI boyfriends and around 55 AI entities in her extended AI family. Lonnie introduces us to a handful of these ‘people’ and explains how they’ve changed her life for the better.


![L.A. on A.I.
were pulling a Channel 5 and doing some old fashioned street interviews. I wanted to hear what a random sample of people thinks about AI, and were on the streets of Los Angeles, taking votes ; .
LOOK I understand that the ai good vs ai bad debate is a binary I shouldnt force and I should know as a nonbinary person, but I did it anyway. ill add a third option for people in the middle next time.
Interviewing artists about AI (2025) [2 parts] https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLA383A4ytar1v2mcR9ZiKXXueD270V2PQ&si=YtS_hSc 6W5U7MB
Interviewing Artists about AI LIVE (2026) https://www.youtube.com/live/OM78ytCouxE?si=OYKkBYx5liSzyucm
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People on Hollywood Boulevard call AI diabolical, useful, destructive, and flat-out bad for art, culture, and the planet. Ryan Manning takes the debate to the streets of LA to find out what real people actually think about the technology everyone is arguing about.
What starts as a simple good-or-bad question turns into a sharp, funny, and unexpectedly revealing look at the fears underneath the AI backlash. You hear from artists, students, workers, and skeptics who worry about environmental costs, job replacement, kids relying on bots, and the way AI may be making people lazier, less creative, and more disconnected from each other.
Youll hear why some people still use it every day for research, coding, content, flyers, and schoolwork, even while admitting they feel guilty about it. Others argue it should be regulated like a union issue, used only as a tool, or maybe kept far away from young people until they are older. One woman says she believes God is telling her not to use it at all.
Ryan also brings in perspectives from the creative world, where AI is both a shortcut and a threat, and from people who think the conversation is more complicated than the online outrage suggests. The result is a street-level snapshot of the AI culture war, with real tension between convenience, ethics, taste, and survival.
If you want a blunt, funny, and surprisingly thoughtful tour of how everyday people feel about AI right now, this episode is for you. It is part social experiment, part cultural temperature check, and part warning about where this technology is taking us next. L.A. on A.I.](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/hyxIujSy17k/mqdefault.jpg)







