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If the thought of voice chats with randomly selected strangers didn't terrify me slightly, I think this would be an awesome idea. For the more out-going among us, can imagine some cool conversations and ideas coming out of this
Are you afraid they might hurt your feelings? Or show you up in some way? Or sexually harass you?
In the age of replicated AI voices and security it seems like this would be a bad idea. How much voice sample is needed to decently replicate someone's voice?
Anyone could record you for this purpose at any time.
Interesting. I think text chats would be a nice addition as they allow asynchronous conversations which would be beneficial.
Isn't that... what we have here at Hacker News already?
But I do think a chat would be a nice addition.
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Slightly? I opened the page before completely processing the title and panicked like a boy forgetting to close his porn before bringing his laptop to school. Don't just invade my personal space like that.
Hahahah same exact experience here. Clicked the tab and it was like touching a stove as my brain caught up with the title - noped out immediately. Now reading through comments while trying to work up the guts to try it. Edit: I did it. I spoke with three people and it was really cool actually; thanks for sharing this.
I just shared a nice chat with a gentleman from Detroit working on some interesting LLM stuff. If you see this, great to meet you!
I am absolutely terrified of informal "coffee chats"... One company I worked for had a policy to do it "few hours every week" with some random person.. completely hated that.
Some people would be happy if they're paid just to talk to somebody _few hours_ during worktime about non work-related stuff.
Is it surprising or unsurprising to see such amount of social anxiety in the comments?