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#textmessages — Public Fediverse posts

Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #textmessages, aggregated by home.social.

  1. University of Michigan: A pocket-sized personal trainer: AI-written texts aim to get older adults moving. “Artificial intelligence can write text messages encouraging physical activity that most older adults consider appropriate and good quality, but their feelings about AI—and if they know AI wrote the message—impact their response, a new study in the Journals of Gerontology suggests.”

    https://rbfirehose.com/2026/04/17/a-pocket-sized-personal-trainer-ai-written-texts-aim-to-get-older-adults-moving-university-of-michigan/
  2. University of British Columbia: Texting with a stranger beats a chatbot at easing loneliness. “Texting with a real person—even a stranger—may reduce loneliness more than chatting with a highly supportive AI chatbot, new UBC research suggests.”

    https://rbfirehose.com/2026/04/07/university-of-british-columbia-texting-with-a-stranger-beats-a-chatbot-at-easing-loneliness/