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Invoking Cunningham's Law. I just don't see the usecase for this. Like what are humans fundamentally missing that this is solving? Pumping out more content fas

Invoking Cunningham's Law. I just don't see the usecase for this. Like what are humans fundamentally missing that this is solving? Pumping out more content faster? I can't even fathom a world where even more content is pumped out. Avatar video calls? Just turn your video off if you are going to do that I don't need to talk to a puppet I want to talk to you. Scams, misinformation campaigns, sucking lonely people down an even more lonely hole? This feels past making a better mousetrap and into making a better window breaker.

cr125rider 2y ago
Targeted, hyper focused, “relatable” marketing is big business. It’s not a problem worth solving, but it’s worth a lot of money.
ilaksh 2y ago
It's very obvious that this makes any interaction with an agent more engaging and potentially more effective.
- from-nibly 2y ago
  But why do I want my interactions with an agent more engaging?
evanjrowley 2y ago
Going by the content of the conversation demos, I suspect this may one day eclipse OnlyFans and/or telehealth therapy sessions.
numpad0 2y ago
Is your felt problem really about lack of positive, worthwhile use cases, or is this thing just so creepy? Because I'm sure there are less useful yet less hated researches, like giant spherical purified water tanks in China lined with TV-sized vacuum tubes(they're coool). I think AI outputs just don't meet expectations for human consumption. It's just too crude like how the molten giant from Nausicaa wasn't ready. Their uttarances cause people to flinch, or if people accumulated exposure despite red flags, slowly drive them crazy. And I think that's the real dealbreaker of the big AI launch - beyond generating boilerplaty code. (I've seen people hypothesizing coming of a mass off-Internet movement that result from developing trust issues between the meat world and mega platformers, that I think we'll believe when that actually happen)
- joecool1029 2y ago
  > Their uttarances cause people to flinch, or if people accumulated exposure despite red flags, slowly drive them crazy. And I think that's the real dealbreaker of the big AI launch - beyond generating boilerplaty code. Following along with that, don't you think it's odd the authors didn't include a single Chinese figure in their examples? Maybe they get weirded out looking at faces they are used to seeing get generated and it's less weird using other races.

cr125rider 2y ago

Targeted, hyper focused, “relatable” marketing is big business. It’s not a problem worth solving, but it’s worth a lot of money.

ilaksh 2y ago

It's very obvious that this makes any interaction with an agent more engaging and potentially more effective.

from-nibly 2y ago
But why do I want my interactions with an agent more engaging?

evanjrowley 2y ago

Going by the content of the conversation demos, I suspect this may one day eclipse OnlyFans and/or telehealth therapy sessions.

numpad0 2y ago

Is your felt problem really about lack of positive, worthwhile use cases, or is this thing just so creepy? Because I'm sure there are less useful yet less hated researches, like giant spherical purified water tanks in China lined with TV-sized vacuum tubes(they're coool). I think AI outputs just don't meet expectations for human consumption. It's just too crude like how the molten giant from Nausicaa wasn't ready. Their uttarances cause people to flinch, or if people accumulated exposure despite red flags, slowly drive them crazy. And I think that's the real dealbreaker of the big AI launch - beyond generating boilerplaty code. (I've seen people hypothesizing coming of a mass off-Internet movement that result from developing trust issues between the meat world and mega platformers, that I think we'll believe when that actually happen)

joecool1029 2y ago
> Their uttarances cause people to flinch, or if people accumulated exposure despite red flags, slowly drive them crazy. And I think that's the real dealbreaker of the big AI launch - beyond generating boilerplaty code. Following along with that, don't you think it's odd the authors didn't include a single Chinese figure in their examples? Maybe they get weirded out looking at faces they are used to seeing get generated and it's less weird using other races.