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Replika Ai is a good case study showing that people will become attached to these models. The OpenAI user base is large enough to justify a super conservative p

Replika Ai is a good case study showing that people will become attached to these models. The OpenAI user base is large enough to justify a super conservative policy and not take the risk. But I also dislike how this policy and filtering unintentionally makes all output less useful. Part of Eugenia Kuyda, the ceo of Replika, statement addressing concerns about a recent update that changed/filtered people's personalized AIs sums the issue well. "... The most important thing we've learned from these conversations is that for many of you, Replika is much more than an app. It is a companion in the truest sense of a word — for some of you it was the most supportive relationship you have ever experienced. " https://www.reddit.com/r/replika/comments/1214wrt/update/ https://www.reddit.com/r/replika/comments/1214wrt/update/

winrid 4y ago
Of course they get attached. We get attached to appliances, and they don't even talk to us yet!
- techdragon 4y ago
  Obligatory proof of how easy (and quickly) it can be to manipulate you into (or for you to just accidentally) anthropomorphise an inanimate object… IKEA’s “Lamp” ad… https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jU-cori12KU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jU-cori12KU Some background on the advert. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lamp_(advertisement) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lamp_(advertisement) And here’s the delightful follow up… Lamp 2 (for anyone that needs something positive after watching the ad… which i absolutely swear is just about a lamp) https://vimeo.com/289118085 https://vimeo.com/289118085
  - winrid 4y ago
    I'm so happy for this lamp's story arc.
    - techdragon 4y ago
      Me too! I didn’t know about the follow up advert until today actually. I found it while I was looking up my links. I’m so happy to have a happy ending redemption arc for the lamp… I shed more than a few tears over this advert over the last decade and a bit… it’s a fucking excellent work of how minimal you can be while maximising emotional content… the feeling that it’s not just one simple story of lamp to dumpster is truly the ending the story needs.

winrid 4y ago

Of course they get attached. We get attached to appliances, and they don't even talk to us yet!

techdragon 4y ago
Obligatory proof of how easy (and quickly) it can be to manipulate you into (or for you to just accidentally) anthropomorphise an inanimate object… IKEA’s “Lamp” ad… https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jU-cori12KU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jU-cori12KU Some background on the advert. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lamp_(advertisement) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lamp_(advertisement) And here’s the delightful follow up… Lamp 2 (for anyone that needs something positive after watching the ad… which i absolutely swear is just about a lamp) https://vimeo.com/289118085 https://vimeo.com/289118085
- winrid 4y ago
  I'm so happy for this lamp's story arc.
  - techdragon 4y ago
    Me too! I didn’t know about the follow up advert until today actually. I found it while I was looking up my links. I’m so happy to have a happy ending redemption arc for the lamp… I shed more than a few tears over this advert over the last decade and a bit… it’s a fucking excellent work of how minimal you can be while maximising emotional content… the feeling that it’s not just one simple story of lamp to dumpster is truly the ending the story needs.