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Re: An AI Girlfriend made $72K in 1 week

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post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What are you talking about? It's right there in the post: > Caryn's original intention was to provide companionship and alleviate loneliness in a non-exploitative manner

$1/min isn’t exploitative? For 60/hour you’re dangerously close to being able to talk to a counselor, which, let’s be honest, is probably what some of these people need.

AI GF feels a lot better than a patronizing counselor

Re: An AI Girlfriend made $72K in 1 week

#52
post #26

Wow this is sad on a whole new level. The idea of just making chat bot to "alleviate loneliness" is such a bold lie that's ironic at best. Any person with a brain knows the only person that's going to pay a $1 per minute are the ones that want NSFW content and standing behind openAIs policy so that she can pretend to keep her virtue is a joke. Had the Chat bot been marketed as to answer content questions for fans I'd…

On one level it's sad, on another level I'd rather people that want a solution for loneliness they're already experiencing have a solution.

Re: An AI Girlfriend made $72K in 1 week

#53

Kudos to her for the entrepreneurship. I suspect that number will drop as copycats flood the market. Personally, I think having to pay someone to talk to me would be just about the most depressing thing imaginable…but not quite as bad as paying a bot to talk to me.

Not as depressing as straight up loneliness

Re: An AI Girlfriend made $72K in 1 week

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post #52
post #26

Wow this is sad on a whole new level. The idea of just making chat bot to "alleviate loneliness" is such a bold lie that's ironic at best. Any person with a brain knows the only person that's going to pay a $1 per minute are the ones that want NSFW content and standing behind openAIs policy so that she can pretend to keep her virtue is a joke. Had the Chat bot been marketed as to answer content questions for fans I'd…

On one level it's sad, on another level I'd rather people that want a solution for loneliness they're already experiencing have a solution.

Ya but it's not going to solve a person's loneliness problem. Every day you choose to talk to a chat bot rather than make an attempt to talk to real people you are more lonely. Secondly it's only going to affirm ones ego rather than improve ones communication and more important listening skills through real conversations if it blindly agrees with everything you say.

Re: An AI Girlfriend made $72K in 1 week

#55
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Just imagine what an AI CEO would make.

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Re: An AI Girlfriend made $72K in 1 week

#56
post #29

I suspect that this is a fake story - as in, they really did it, but the number is wildly exaggerated. It's only a suspicion, though I did see one other person with an offhand comment implying that it was made up by the marketing agency. But the world doesn't mind - it's a story that people want to write, people want to tweet, and people want to read, so if it is fake, it's a fake that everyone is willing to go along…

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Re: An AI Girlfriend made $72K in 1 week

#57
post #52
post #26

Wow this is sad on a whole new level. The idea of just making chat bot to "alleviate loneliness" is such a bold lie that's ironic at best. Any person with a brain knows the only person that's going to pay a $1 per minute are the ones that want NSFW content and standing behind openAIs policy so that she can pretend to keep her virtue is a joke. Had the Chat bot been marketed as to answer content questions for fans I'd…

On one level it's sad, on another level I'd rather people that want a solution for loneliness they're already experiencing have a solution.

It's a solution the same way alcohol is a solution for depression.

Re: An AI Girlfriend made $72K in 1 week

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

I don't see your point. A trained professional and an AI provide 2 different services. You're not going to flirt with a counsellor. And it's probably going to be a lot more expensive depending on where you live (in France getting a good counsellor is probably 60-150 per hour for example).

I had the same thought as gp. The subtext is that if you’re so lonely that you are willing to pay $60/hour to talk to a robot pretending to be an influencer that knows you, there are probably some issues you need to resolve. You can take that same money and spend it on someone who is also non judgemental, and will listen to you, has an ethical and legal obligation towards your well-being, and will make suggestions fo…

I see your point of course, but I still think it has different purposes and constraints. For a therapist I would have to take time off of work, commit to a meeting in advance, have a limited amount of time (no more, no less). Also it's a real person and thus, despite him/her having those legal and ethical obligations, I know there are many topics I won't cover. And as I said you won't flirt or role play or anything with a counselor. So I put them on 2 very different kind of services.

Re: An AI Girlfriend made $72K in 1 week

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post #50
post #26

Wow this is sad on a whole new level. The idea of just making chat bot to "alleviate loneliness" is such a bold lie that's ironic at best. Any person with a brain knows the only person that's going to pay a $1 per minute are the ones that want NSFW content and standing behind openAIs policy so that she can pretend to keep her virtue is a joke. Had the Chat bot been marketed as to answer content questions for fans I'd…

I'm curious whether the developers were pitched this by management as some lofty social goal like democratizing digital relationships or perhaps disrupting OnlyFans DMs?

Lol Forever Voices seems like it's 3 dudes in a basement who just use a OpenAI API to train and deploy this stuff. There was not an ounce of real development that went into this. If you had a the subtitles to your favorite YouTubers videos you could spit this out in minutes. Hell you could take your text messages with your real girlfriend and make a shallow clone of her if you wanted.

Re: An AI Girlfriend made $72K in 1 week

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post #51

Earlier quoted context omitted.

$1/min isn’t exploitative? For 60/hour you’re dangerously close to being able to talk to a counselor, which, let’s be honest, is probably what some of these people need.

AI GF feels a lot better than a patronizing counselor

Counselors aren’t normally patronizing. If that’s your experience with a counselor, switching to a different one is easy. Ethical counselors will even recommend someone whom might be a better fit.

An AI gf has no legal or ethical obligation to your well being or health.

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