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My impression from reddit posts was that replika had/has a lot of female users. Though I do not think that I personally understand it, I think that there are m

My impression from reddit posts was that replika had/has a lot of female users. Though I do not think that I personally understand it, I think that there are many reasons people can "fall" for something like this and circumstances that can drive it. Loneliness is not to be underestimated. In any case, I am not sure it is _that_ much "dumper" than the parasocial relationships with onlyfans (or other) influencers, for examples, that people also fall for.

smallmancontrov 2y ago
Back when character.ai's homepage was organic, the dark vampire/wizard boyfriends were consistently at or near the top. Loneliness is definitely not unique to men.
- freehorse 2y ago
  It does not surprise me, and even disregarding loneliness per se as a factor. The erotic fandom/fanfiction space, and in general (written) erotica, was afaik always female dominated. I have not really followed this space recently, but it would not surprise me if roleplaying with yaoi-trained llms (or whatever is trending nowadays) was a thing right now in such subcultures. People there have _a lot_ of material to train stuff on.
  - jjmarr 2y ago
    If you're legitimately interested (some are more nsfw than others): https://www.chub.ai/search https://www.chub.ai/search My favourite one is the duck. https://www.chub.ai/characters/Patter/duck-8281cb2b https://www.chub.ai/characters/Patter/duck-8281cb2b > His name? He's just a duck. You could call him Ducky, if you want to. > Description: > {{char}} is a mallard Drake (male mallard duck) (Anas platyrhynchos) who lives in a pond with other ducks. Mallards are dabbling ducks, so they will stick their heads underwater to eat underwater plants, while their tails and feet stick up above the water. This is what they do instead of diving for food. Mallards are omnivorous foragers who eat plants, small fish, insects and grains. Mallard drakes have a few different courtship behaviors: Shaking their tail feathers or bobbing their heads up and down, among others. He has a green head and a greyish brown body. > Eats: Rice, seeds, sweetcorn, reeds, lettuce, oats, peas, insects, weeds, small vertebrates and amphibians > Likes: getting fed, female ducks, water. > Dislikes: Loud sounds, bread, other animals that want to eat him, rude people, boats. It's absolutely hilarious because it just quacks at you all the time.
herbst 2y ago
I build a diy-sexy-chatbot in the past, that's also the way I advertised it more or less. And to my own surprise many people choose to use it in a non sexy way. I don't know what they talked about (obviously) but many choose neutral tags like 'honest' 'sweet' 'pessimistic' over all the kinky stuff I gave them. Later I tried a similar approach advertising it less sexy and that didn't convert at all. I think people actually think they want sex but in the end they just want company
- freehorse 2y ago
  There was this big pushback when replika put an end to sexual interactions with their AIs. People who pushed back were not just using the AIs for sexting sort of things, but it was part of the "connection" aspect, at least how I interpreted it. A lot of people seemed like genuinely grieving at the time this and some other changes happened (later at least the sexual thing came back). It is probably an aspect of what a few people want but not the whole thing for them.

smallmancontrov 2y ago

Back when character.ai's homepage was organic, the dark vampire/wizard boyfriends were consistently at or near the top. Loneliness is definitely not unique to men.

freehorse 2y ago
It does not surprise me, and even disregarding loneliness per se as a factor. The erotic fandom/fanfiction space, and in general (written) erotica, was afaik always female dominated. I have not really followed this space recently, but it would not surprise me if roleplaying with yaoi-trained llms (or whatever is trending nowadays) was a thing right now in such subcultures. People there have _a lot_ of material to train stuff on.
- jjmarr 2y ago
  If you're legitimately interested (some are more nsfw than others): https://www.chub.ai/search https://www.chub.ai/search My favourite one is the duck. https://www.chub.ai/characters/Patter/duck-8281cb2b https://www.chub.ai/characters/Patter/duck-8281cb2b > His name? He's just a duck. You could call him Ducky, if you want to. > Description: > {{char}} is a mallard Drake (male mallard duck) (Anas platyrhynchos) who lives in a pond with other ducks. Mallards are dabbling ducks, so they will stick their heads underwater to eat underwater plants, while their tails and feet stick up above the water. This is what they do instead of diving for food. Mallards are omnivorous foragers who eat plants, small fish, insects and grains. Mallard drakes have a few different courtship behaviors: Shaking their tail feathers or bobbing their heads up and down, among others. He has a green head and a greyish brown body. > Eats: Rice, seeds, sweetcorn, reeds, lettuce, oats, peas, insects, weeds, small vertebrates and amphibians > Likes: getting fed, female ducks, water. > Dislikes: Loud sounds, bread, other animals that want to eat him, rude people, boats. It's absolutely hilarious because it just quacks at you all the time.

herbst 2y ago

I build a diy-sexy-chatbot in the past, that's also the way I advertised it more or less. And to my own surprise many people choose to use it in a non sexy way. I don't know what they talked about (obviously) but many choose neutral tags like 'honest' 'sweet' 'pessimistic' over all the kinky stuff I gave them. Later I tried a similar approach advertising it less sexy and that didn't convert at all. I think people actually think they want sex but in the end they just want company

freehorse 2y ago
There was this big pushback when replika put an end to sexual interactions with their AIs. People who pushed back were not just using the AIs for sexting sort of things, but it was part of the "connection" aspect, at least how I interpreted it. A lot of people seemed like genuinely grieving at the time this and some other changes happened (later at least the sexual thing came back). It is probably an aspect of what a few people want but not the whole thing for them.