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Replica founder Eugenia Kuyda says that AI relationships will be a great stepping stone to real relationships. Feels similar to how dating companies will claim

Replica founder Eugenia Kuyda says that AI relationships will be a great stepping stone to real relationships. Feels similar to how dating companies will claim their goal is to get single people off of their apps and into a romance with another person. It's a nice thought, but it's not how the business incentives actually line up.

mensetmanusman 3y ago
That’s hilariously hopeful.
SketchySeaBeast 3y ago
Unless the AI relationship is going to be irrational at times it's not training for anything. People are complicated and we get irritable and hangry, AI typically does not. It's going to end up creating intangible, idealized relationships. We already have way too much of that with idealized images.
- cooper_ganglia 3y ago
  Exactly! An AI model that doesn't have it's own personality and always defers to your interests, desires, and opinions is only preparing people for failed, self-centered relationships built on an idealized partner. This is really bleak.
Blackthorn 3y ago
Replica founder will say anything to keep his business alive, after sabotaging it so badly. I saw nonstop ads for Replica for months that were borderline NSFW. Then I read articles on Hacker News some six months later about how they added filters to remove NSFW parts and their client base was revolting. I'm not sure how they survived as a functional business afterward (VC funding?).
PaulHoule 3y ago
If that kind of system is successful at seducing you, you will go through a period of falling in love with it, "crystalization" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crystallization_(love) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crystallization_(love) and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Limerence https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Limerence which are very beneficial for it because the "lights are on and nobody is home" with LLMs frequently but if you are in that crystallization phase you are going to be blind to its flaws. At some point the bloom will come off and you will fall out of love, the question is if it takes two weeks, two months, two years, two decades. At two months it is probably a positive experience that doesn't affect your life course. At two decades you've lost a lot of time.

mensetmanusman 3y ago

That’s hilariously hopeful.

SketchySeaBeast 3y ago

Unless the AI relationship is going to be irrational at times it's not training for anything. People are complicated and we get irritable and hangry, AI typically does not. It's going to end up creating intangible, idealized relationships. We already have way too much of that with idealized images.

cooper_ganglia 3y ago
Exactly! An AI model that doesn't have it's own personality and always defers to your interests, desires, and opinions is only preparing people for failed, self-centered relationships built on an idealized partner. This is really bleak.

Blackthorn 3y ago

Replica founder will say anything to keep his business alive, after sabotaging it so badly. I saw nonstop ads for Replica for months that were borderline NSFW. Then I read articles on Hacker News some six months later about how they added filters to remove NSFW parts and their client base was revolting. I'm not sure how they survived as a functional business afterward (VC funding?).

PaulHoule 3y ago

If that kind of system is successful at seducing you, you will go through a period of falling in love with it, "crystalization" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crystallization_(love) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crystallization_(love) and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Limerence https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Limerence which are very beneficial for it because the "lights are on and nobody is home" with LLMs frequently but if you are in that crystallization phase you are going to be blind to its flaws. At some point the bloom will come off and you will fall out of love, the question is if it takes two weeks, two months, two years, two decades. At two months it is probably a positive experience that doesn't affect your life course. At two decades you've lost a lot of time.