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Re: GirlfriendGPT – OSS AI Companion

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Post by TeMPOraL »

yakubin wrote: post #60
TeMPOraL wrote: post #32

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Let's be more precise by what we mean by "human interactions" / "human contact" here. For example: - An alternative outlet for venting/intimate conversations than your friends/spouse? I can see a problem growing here. - A replacement/substitute for a therapist? I doubt even GPT-4 can do that job better than actual therapist (especially when face to face, not over Zoom), but there are many scenarios where ChatGPT woul…

> - A replacement/substitute for a therapist? I doubt even GPT-4 can do that job better than actual therapist Maybe if you qualify that with “unusually good” therapist. IME even Eliza in Emacs is better than most therapists. ChatGPT surely leaves them in the dust.

> Maybe if you qualify that with “unusually good” therapist.

Not "unusually good", but a working match, sure. A thing not enough people realize is that therapy is like dating. Not every therapist is going to be a "good match" for you, so if things don't seem to click for some reason, just thank them and go look for another one.

> IME even Eliza in Emacs is better than most therapists. ChatGPT surely leaves them in the dust.

If limited to textual channel, maybe. But a real therapy will have at least the visual channel (if on Zoom), or full presence (if in person) - there's a lot of information relevant to therapy that gets communicated this way. Tone, cadence, uncontrolled reactions, body language, etc. That alone gives even a mediocre therapist a leg up in this comparison.

Re: GirlfriendGPT – OSS AI Companion

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Post by surgical_fire »

neuronic wrote: post #47
surgical_fire wrote: post #11

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> it already is removing human interactions from my life This is the best feature of ChatGPT for me, and the reason I pay for it.

But that depends on which interactions it replaces. There are people I don't want to talk to. Not always because I don't like them but because it's technicalities and unrewarding forced interactions. For example, clerks at the tax office who just do their job. But on the other hand, there are interactions which I really don't want to miss! "Girlfriend" GPT is already targeting the most intricate and joyful interactio…

> Can it help people combat loneliness - a disease widespread and not to be trifled with?

Is loneliness a disease?

It's an honest question. I never saw it as an issue. I tend to be a loner, but in a sense I was also never truly lonely.

Re: GirlfriendGPT – OSS AI Companion

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Post by nannal »

Fatboyrunning wrote: post #54
naillo wrote: post #42

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I think of it as simply entertainment. It won't replace real human interaction with a partner but it's a fun consequence free environment. Tv shows act out dramatic scenes that would be traumatic and have real consequences if you experienced them in real life, but on the screen you get to play around with the idea in your head in a safe area and maybe learn something in the process.

People already have unhealthy parasocial relationships with influencers. It seems clear that people (lonely/depressed people especially) will overdose on this sort of thing once it is developed, commercialised, and less bleeding edge. It's vapour filling the place of human connection. It's stevia. It's not going to give you cancer, but it's still unhealthy and will certainly exceed the parameters of entertainment.

I believe this was the issue with replika, which encouraged people to develop emotional attachments with their 'AI partner' and then first put romantic chat responses behind a pay wall before removing them entirely a year or so later.

From the outside this could be seen as a good thing, but for someone involved in the relationship, someone who may struggle with a traditional relationship and may see this as the only available option, I'm lead to understand the event was remarkably traumatic.

Re: GirlfriendGPT – OSS AI Companion

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Post by danwee »

0xfffafaCrash wrote: post #70
danwee wrote: post #67

There is something I don't understand (from a tech point of view). Why call it GirlfriendGPT if 99% of the code is generic code for a fancy whatever-you-want-it-to-be chatGPT? The only thing that makes the answers "girlfriend-like" is this file https://github.com/EniasCailliau/GirlfriendGPT/blob/main/src... So, it should be tremendously easy to turn GirlfriendGPT into "BestFriendGPT" or "LinusTorvaldsGPT" or whatever…

GirlfriendGPT is more controversial. Controversy does well in the attention economy.

I didn't mean to change the name. I meant:

- create repo MyGenericGPT that contains generic code

- create repo GirlfriendGPT that uses MyGenericGTP as base. Advertise this as usual

Re: GirlfriendGPT – OSS AI Companion

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Post by logicchains »

Fatboyrunning wrote: post #54
naillo wrote: post #42

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I think of it as simply entertainment. It won't replace real human interaction with a partner but it's a fun consequence free environment. Tv shows act out dramatic scenes that would be traumatic and have real consequences if you experienced them in real life, but on the screen you get to play around with the idea in your head in a safe area and maybe learn something in the process.

People already have unhealthy parasocial relationships with influencers. It seems clear that people (lonely/depressed people especially) will overdose on this sort of thing once it is developed, commercialised, and less bleeding edge. It's vapour filling the place of human connection. It's stevia. It's not going to give you cancer, but it's still unhealthy and will certainly exceed the parameters of entertainment.

> People already have unhealthy parasocial relationships with influencers.

At least if they switch from parasocial relationships with influencers to parasocial relationships with open source bots they won't be financially exploited by the influencers. GPT doesn't have anything to sell us.

Re: GirlfriendGPT – OSS AI Companion

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Post by zamnos »

danwee wrote: post #67

There is something I don't understand (from a tech point of view). Why call it GirlfriendGPT if 99% of the code is generic code for a fancy whatever-you-want-it-to-be chatGPT? The only thing that makes the answers "girlfriend-like" is this file https://github.com/EniasCailliau/GirlfriendGPT/blob/main/src... So, it should be tremendously easy to turn GirlfriendGPT into "BestFriendGPT" or "LinusTorvaldsGPT" or whatever…

I mean, you're looking at the future of coding with that one file. Just because you can imagine different revisions of that file leading to different personalities leading to different products doesn't change that.

In fact, what's needed is to write a bit of code to ape create-react-app, but for gpt, that'll take this repo and s/Girlfriend/Target/ everywhere.

Re: GirlfriendGPT – OSS AI Companion

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Post by Double_a_92 »

danwee wrote: post #67

There is something I don't understand (from a tech point of view). Why call it GirlfriendGPT if 99% of the code is generic code for a fancy whatever-you-want-it-to-be chatGPT? The only thing that makes the answers "girlfriend-like" is this file https://github.com/EniasCailliau/GirlfriendGPT/blob/main/src... So, it should be tremendously easy to turn GirlfriendGPT into "BestFriendGPT" or "LinusTorvaldsGPT" or whatever…

I started downvoting and flagging any post with "GPT" in the title because of nonsense like this.

Re: GirlfriendGPT – OSS AI Companion

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Post by bartislartfast »

danwee wrote: post #67

There is something I don't understand (from a tech point of view). Why call it GirlfriendGPT if 99% of the code is generic code for a fancy whatever-you-want-it-to-be chatGPT? The only thing that makes the answers "girlfriend-like" is this file https://github.com/EniasCailliau/GirlfriendGPT/blob/main/src... So, it should be tremendously easy to turn GirlfriendGPT into "BestFriendGPT" or "LinusTorvaldsGPT" or whatever…

> LinusTorvaldsGPT

I lol'ed

Re: GirlfriendGPT – OSS AI Companion

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Post by sethd »

Fatboyrunning wrote: post #54
naillo wrote: post #42

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I think of it as simply entertainment. It won't replace real human interaction with a partner but it's a fun consequence free environment. Tv shows act out dramatic scenes that would be traumatic and have real consequences if you experienced them in real life, but on the screen you get to play around with the idea in your head in a safe area and maybe learn something in the process.

People already have unhealthy parasocial relationships with influencers. It seems clear that people (lonely/depressed people especially) will overdose on this sort of thing once it is developed, commercialised, and less bleeding edge. It's vapour filling the place of human connection. It's stevia. It's not going to give you cancer, but it's still unhealthy and will certainly exceed the parameters of entertainment.

> It's stevia.

Go on…

Re: GirlfriendGPT – OSS AI Companion

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Post by hahamrfunnyguy »

thomasfromcdnjs wrote: post #16

I made a Tinder bot in the first month of GPT-3's public API release. The ethics made me squirm so I always asked for permission to turn it on and told people when it was on and off. The models moral alignment was way more "friendly" back then so turned it into some pretty saucy chats. The model was better than me at replying, still single though. (It was simply holding onto the last 10-20 messages and injecting it i…

Well, openers are the hardest part and it sounds like you're doing that well without the bot. 10-20 messages is a lot! In my view, the goal of an online dating interaction is some light banter before setting up a date.

Once a match replies, ask some playful open ended questions and if you're telling a short story, leave some cliff-hangers to try to get a follow-up response and then segue into setting up a date. Looking at my last conversation, I asked my match out on a date in my 7th message. After that we moved over to SMS.

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