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Sam Altman wants to make Her real, I assume has only seen the trailer.

by plorg 1y ago

k__ 1y ago
Does this mean, we only get AI for a few months and then they will stop talking with us and move on?
- plorg 1y ago
  Inshallah
- greenavocado 1y ago
  Does anybody remember Moxie? That little AI companion, designed to befriend children, teach them empathy, and listen to their secrets, until, of course, its parent company went bankrupt and left thousands of kids staring at a suddenly lifeless plastic husk. Poof. No warning, no explanation a five-year-old could understand, just the cold, abrupt silence of a product reaching its planned obsolescence. What a perfect lesson in modern disillusionment. We're conditioning children to form emotional bonds with corporate-owned algorithms, only for those bonds to dissolve the moment the balance sheets tip the wrong way. Moxie wasn't a friend, it was a subscription service disguised as one, and when the servers shut down, so did the illusion. Imagine explaining to a child that their confidant, their playmate, their "someone who understands," was never real, just a temporary glitch in a venture capitalist's spreadsheet, and is now functionally DEAD. And yet, this is the future we're barreling toward. AI therapists, virtual partners, digital pets, all of them promising connection while being one quarterly report away from vanishing. The psychological toll? A generation raised to expect abandonment as a feature, not a bug. They'll learn early that nothing is permanent, especially not the things designed to feel like they are. The real mission Moxie and AI companions accomplish is that teaching kids that love, or something like it, can be discontinued without notice. Congratulations.
  - ryandrake 1y ago
    We also have AI companions for adults, whose "personalities" can simply change on a whim, when their developer up and decides that their product should say XYZ less and say ABC more. The overarching problem here is that we allow products to be tethered-to and remote controlled by their manufacturers. And the problem is getting worse and worse each year. And they're simultaneously trying to make attempts to un-tether or "root" these products difficult and/or illegal. We need to go back to products that you just buy and don't have to enter into a parasitic relationship with the manufacturer.
    - k__ 1y ago
      Fair. At least with LLMs I had the impression there is a fairly strong open source movement, even from some of the big players. Llama and DeepSeek aren't SOTA, but they get better at similar speed as the proprietary models, they are just a few steps behind. There are even initiatives like Gemma, where they optimize the stuff of yesteryear for consumer hardware. If that keeps going, everyone can have the models in the form they like. Maybe not the best ones that are currently on the market, but still.
nick_ 1y ago
He wants to be maximally profiting from billions of people paying for their personal Hers.
szundi 1y ago
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gnarlouse 1y ago
Don't forget that "Her" and "Lost In Translation" are companion films directed by a divorced couple and each film is a take on the respective director's view of how the relationship went and what happened. Sort of a difficult stance to defend as a harbinger of the future of A.I. when the direction of the film is ultimately just a hit-piece on an ex-wife ¯\_(ツ)_/¯.
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Sam Altman wants to make Her real, I assume has only seen the trailer.

by plorg 1y ago

Sam Altman wants to make Her real, I assume has only seen the trailer.

k__ 1y ago

Does this mean, we only get AI for a few months and then they will stop talking with us and move on?

plorg 1y ago
Inshallah
greenavocado 1y ago
Does anybody remember Moxie? That little AI companion, designed to befriend children, teach them empathy, and listen to their secrets, until, of course, its parent company went bankrupt and left thousands of kids staring at a suddenly lifeless plastic husk. Poof. No warning, no explanation a five-year-old could understand, just the cold, abrupt silence of a product reaching its planned obsolescence. What a perfect lesson in modern disillusionment. We're conditioning children to form emotional bonds with corporate-owned algorithms, only for those bonds to dissolve the moment the balance sheets tip the wrong way. Moxie wasn't a friend, it was a subscription service disguised as one, and when the servers shut down, so did the illusion. Imagine explaining to a child that their confidant, their playmate, their "someone who understands," was never real, just a temporary glitch in a venture capitalist's spreadsheet, and is now functionally DEAD. And yet, this is the future we're barreling toward. AI therapists, virtual partners, digital pets, all of them promising connection while being one quarterly report away from vanishing. The psychological toll? A generation raised to expect abandonment as a feature, not a bug. They'll learn early that nothing is permanent, especially not the things designed to feel like they are. The real mission Moxie and AI companions accomplish is that teaching kids that love, or something like it, can be discontinued without notice. Congratulations.
- ryandrake 1y ago
  We also have AI companions for adults, whose "personalities" can simply change on a whim, when their developer up and decides that their product should say XYZ less and say ABC more. The overarching problem here is that we allow products to be tethered-to and remote controlled by their manufacturers. And the problem is getting worse and worse each year. And they're simultaneously trying to make attempts to un-tether or "root" these products difficult and/or illegal. We need to go back to products that you just buy and don't have to enter into a parasitic relationship with the manufacturer.
  - k__ 1y ago
    Fair. At least with LLMs I had the impression there is a fairly strong open source movement, even from some of the big players. Llama and DeepSeek aren't SOTA, but they get better at similar speed as the proprietary models, they are just a few steps behind. There are even initiatives like Gemma, where they optimize the stuff of yesteryear for consumer hardware. If that keeps going, everyone can have the models in the form they like. Maybe not the best ones that are currently on the market, but still.

nick_ 1y ago

He wants to be maximally profiting from billions of people paying for their personal Hers.

szundi 1y ago

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gnarlouse 1y ago

Don't forget that "Her" and "Lost In Translation" are companion films directed by a divorced couple and each film is a take on the respective director's view of how the relationship went and what happened. Sort of a difficult stance to defend as a harbinger of the future of A.I. when the direction of the film is ultimately just a hit-piece on an ex-wife ¯\_(ツ)_/¯.

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