Haven’t we retreated from life enough? AI companions are just a fancy way of pretending you’re not alone.
GirlfriendGPT – OSS AI Companion
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#82Earlier quoted context omitted.
For me, asking something on the Internet, like on stackoverflow is usually, the very last option. I am too afraid to get ridiculed for it or get scolded for not having put enough effort in my question that already feels more as a thesis. Maybe this is just me and this does not reflect reality but I do have the nagging feeling I a bother somebody with it and it gives a bit of stress. Not so with ChatGPT, I can just as…
It’s not just you, I also tend to ask people as a last resort
Same here. And in many ways it’s been the curse of my life.
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#83I am not worried about an evil, monstrous AGI suddenly emerging and blowing away humanity, but I do worry about things like this. Hyperpornography seems a squarely apocalyptic trend.
Humanity will survive. Only the people genetically predisposed to not being interested in robot girlfriends will reproduce, and everyone in the next generation will have those genes.
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#84Earlier quoted context omitted.
> 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.
This. While not me personally, there is obviously a market (Japan comes to mind) for virtual, non-human based interactions and relationships. While it seems pretty clear to me subjectively that removing human interaction from your life has a negative effect it's still desired by some and they're entitled to that.
The very last thing shut-in men in Japan need is a SaaS virtual girlfriend
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#85I am not worried about an evil, monstrous AGI suddenly emerging and blowing away humanity, but I do worry about things like this. Hyperpornography seems a squarely apocalyptic trend.
is a virtual conversational companion worse than the current porn industry? seems like it would be a solid improvement over what we have today, which involves real people being dehumanised for entertainment.
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#86Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
The commercial company exploiting ChatGPT and making it easy to use via whatsapp integrations, video, etc... surely will
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#87I'm very torn on this. On one hand, I think that personalized OSS AIs are the future from a pure utility perspective, and it will inevitably be "more fun" for them to have personalities. I also think that if someone is deriving joy from something and not harming anyone else, who I am to judge them. On the other, I've already found myself asking ChatGPT questions that I would have asked on a forum/discord or even a co…
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.
My idea too. I hope people can use it to cure their loneliness in the short term and train their social skills in a safe environment so they are more confident.
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#88I 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…
How did people react to your request to turn on an AI bot?
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#89Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
Not so sure about that. Wendy's drivethrough chatbot is programmed to upsell. Even the base GPT is heavily tuned to cater to a corporate audience.
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#90Earlier quoted context omitted.
For me, asking something on the Internet, like on stackoverflow is usually, the very last option. I am too afraid to get ridiculed for it or get scolded for not having put enough effort in my question that already feels more as a thesis. Maybe this is just me and this does not reflect reality but I do have the nagging feeling I a bother somebody with it and it gives a bit of stress. Not so with ChatGPT, I can just as…
As someone who never asked a question in StackOverflow for what are probably similar reasons (despite being in this career for 20 years), I still find that ChatGPT in this regard is still more like a Google or an improved StackOverflow/documentation search… It can infer some things, modify variable names to match mine, but for the real hairy stuff I still gotta do the legwork myself, normally by reaching out for the…
Have you tried AutoGPT? I've heard that it can do a bit more through iteration. Haven't tried it out yet for coding hard problems.