It's interesting to think about how this situation will evolve as "AI girlfriend" software (and underlying ML models) improves. Perhaps along with next generati

It's interesting to think about how this situation will evolve as "AI girlfriend" software (and underlying ML models) improves. Perhaps along with next generation consumer hardware. If there is a good chance that any popular "online personality" of that sort will be an AI, then I might as well skip a step and just install my "girlfriend" locally. Also, systems like Stable Diffusion or other similar models like instant-id can generate imagery of any "personality" for any desired situation at will. I think personalities will have trouble suing everyone who is doing that on their own computer. Or ever knowing how many are doing it. I think there are actually already somewhat convincing versions of this. At least on a surface level. (Sometimes I suspect that r/localllama could be called r/localwaifu and it would be mostly accurate). Just haven't investigated thoroughly. Could be an interesting weekend project. I was doing an interview for a project where someone wanted to build a more "empathetic" AI. Not necessarily a girlfriend, maybe more useful (but perhaps not necessarily not a girlfriend). He had someone from BlackRock on the call with him. Which I think was just his buddy from college and that was a coincidence. Probably. But it's hard not to think that sort of thing as being a profitable investment.