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I mean, it's also real https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3WSKKolgL2U https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3WSKKolgL2U https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Replika https://en

by csours 3y ago

I mean, it's also real https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3WSKKolgL2U https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3WSKKolgL2U https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Replika https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Replika

jjoonathan 3y ago
Yeah, but can we really call it an AI "revolution" until someone makes a door with a cheerful and sunny disposition that opens with pleasure and closes with the satisfaction of a job well done? Someone should get to work on those Genuine People Personalities!
- systems_glitch 3y ago
  Many of them get caught, slaughtered, dried out, shipped out and slept on. None of them seems to mind this and all of them are called Zem.
jsheard 3y ago
There's also Forever Voices, which offers those who have formed unhealthy parasocial relationships with real-life streamers/influencers the opportunity to talk to an AI version of them for $1 per minute. FV started out making novelty chatbots of people like Trump and Steve Jobs, but they seem to have made a hard pivot to exploiting desperately lonely people after realising how much more lucrative it could be. https://www.polygon.com/23736317/amouranth-ai-chatbot-date-interview-artificial-intelligence-forever-voices https://www.polygon.com/23736317/amouranth-ai-chatbot-date-i... https://fortune.com/2023/05/09/snapchat-influencer-launches-carynai-virtual-girlfriend-bot-openai-gpt4/ https://fortune.com/2023/05/09/snapchat-influencer-launches-...
- anonym29 3y ago
  This is incredibly sickening. This is women teaming up with a technology company to extract money from vulnerable, mentally unwell people suffering from some combination of soul-crushing loneliness and delusional thinking. Even if some customers are aware that they're engaged in delusional thinking, this is still nauseatingly exploitative of a comparatively lower socioeconomic class, one that may be suffering from mental illness. I see very little difference between this and those infomercials that sell wildly overpriced mass-produced crap to the elderly suffering from cognitive decline.
  - reaperman 3y ago
    Yes it’s worse than what came before. But I see it as a continuation of both addictive games with pay to win IAP who prey on similar whales, and streaming in general with “pay to be noticed”. It’s not necessarily game-changing, from the perspective of $$ extraction, but definitely a very significant advancement.

by csours 3y ago

I mean, it's also real https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3WSKKolgL2U https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3WSKKolgL2U https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Replika https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Replika

jjoonathan 3y ago

Yeah, but can we really call it an AI "revolution" until someone makes a door with a cheerful and sunny disposition that opens with pleasure and closes with the satisfaction of a job well done? Someone should get to work on those Genuine People Personalities!

systems_glitch 3y ago
Many of them get caught, slaughtered, dried out, shipped out and slept on. None of them seems to mind this and all of them are called Zem.

jsheard 3y ago

There's also Forever Voices, which offers those who have formed unhealthy parasocial relationships with real-life streamers/influencers the opportunity to talk to an AI version of them for $1 per minute. FV started out making novelty chatbots of people like Trump and Steve Jobs, but they seem to have made a hard pivot to exploiting desperately lonely people after realising how much more lucrative it could be. https://www.polygon.com/23736317/amouranth-ai-chatbot-date-interview-artificial-intelligence-forever-voices https://www.polygon.com/23736317/amouranth-ai-chatbot-date-i... https://fortune.com/2023/05/09/snapchat-influencer-launches-carynai-virtual-girlfriend-bot-openai-gpt4/ https://fortune.com/2023/05/09/snapchat-influencer-launches-...

anonym29 3y ago
This is incredibly sickening. This is women teaming up with a technology company to extract money from vulnerable, mentally unwell people suffering from some combination of soul-crushing loneliness and delusional thinking. Even if some customers are aware that they're engaged in delusional thinking, this is still nauseatingly exploitative of a comparatively lower socioeconomic class, one that may be suffering from mental illness. I see very little difference between this and those infomercials that sell wildly overpriced mass-produced crap to the elderly suffering from cognitive decline.
- reaperman 3y ago
  Yes it’s worse than what came before. But I see it as a continuation of both addictive games with pay to win IAP who prey on similar whales, and streaming in general with “pay to be noticed”. It’s not necessarily game-changing, from the perspective of $$ extraction, but definitely a very significant advancement.