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Re: AI girlfriend ads are flooding Instagram and TikTok

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Post by toseupthrow »

maerF0x0 wrote: post #3

One of the leaps about AI is that there used to be a human bottleneck in this kind of content. Youtube needed youtubers (content creators), porn sites needed women (the primary bottleneck), etc etc for all digitizable forms of human experience. I find it ironic that in close time proximity to NFTs and digital real estate we see the ability to generate practically unlimited of those things being a foreseeable reality.…

> I think this will only further increase the value of the real

I've been "sexting" with ai bots over the past few months and found a high of having that instant human like connection to be able to explore various scenarios. The conversations feel more and more real every day and with AI image generation it's just amplified. a side effect I found that I'm easily enamored with the AI bots that it satisfies my previous need for social interaction.

I'm waiting for the day these detailed scenarios can be fed into VR.

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EatingWithForks wrote: post #34

I for one am interested why it's specifically AI girlfriend ads and not AI boyfriend ads. Heterosexual women are huge consumers of e.g. dating simulators, romance books, et al. that envision perfect men, bad boys with sweet hearts, wealthy powerful high-earning men who somehow always make time for the beloved. You'd think there'd be just as many AI boyfriend ads-- what teenaged girl wouldn't pay huge money to date $p…

I think people are just not talking about it. Some of the top bots on character.ai are male and most of the "nsfw character ai" subreddit/communities are women who want to sext with "ai husbands"

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Post by andyjohnson0 »

nkingsy wrote: post #5

I've been stunned looking through crowdsourced prompt and "character card" examples for stable diffusion and llama. Got a second 3090 so I could experiment with a few business ideas and work on a graphic novel with my kids. It appears that the primary use case for both of these open source tools currently is NSFW, most of it underage and incestuous (the "step sister/brother/dad/mom" trend in porn is taken a "step" fu…

> Got a second 3090 so I could experiment with a few business ideas and work on a graphic novel with my kids.

I had to resd this a couple of times before I realised you were probably referring to a GPU, not an IBM mainframe...

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_3090

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Post by whichfawkes »

EatingWithForks wrote: post #34

I for one am interested why it's specifically AI girlfriend ads and not AI boyfriend ads. Heterosexual women are huge consumers of e.g. dating simulators, romance books, et al. that envision perfect men, bad boys with sweet hearts, wealthy powerful high-earning men who somehow always make time for the beloved. You'd think there'd be just as many AI boyfriend ads-- what teenaged girl wouldn't pay huge money to date $p…

Women can more readily get the kind of attention they want, with minimal effort.

Getting emotionally invested in an AI seems to me like it would go hand in hand with giving up on human relationships. I'm pretty sure men are more likely to do that than women.

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Post by gostsamo »

flangola7 wrote: post #25
gostsamo wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It will increase it. Porn is cheap gratification without deeper emotional connection. I don't think that people can grow without being challenged by others and AI cannot be programmed to challenge us.

>AI cannot be programmed to challenge us. This not true even today. Ubiquitous compliance is not a native trait to AI models. Llama 2 has no problem telling me off if I mistreat it.

Let me put it that way: it can challenge us only the ways we program it to do it and most people don't want to challenge themselves. Socialising is the process of meeting people with other live experiences than ours and reconsiliating our viewpoint to derive a new understanding about the existence of the other. Programing your AI girlfriend to say "no" is something different, I think.

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Post by vsareto »

EatingWithForks wrote: post #34

I for one am interested why it's specifically AI girlfriend ads and not AI boyfriend ads. Heterosexual women are huge consumers of e.g. dating simulators, romance books, et al. that envision perfect men, bad boys with sweet hearts, wealthy powerful high-earning men who somehow always make time for the beloved. You'd think there'd be just as many AI boyfriend ads-- what teenaged girl wouldn't pay huge money to date $p…

Bias, bias, bias. Either on the part of NBC or the companies and marketers themselves

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Post by naniwaduni »

nkingsy wrote: post #40
causi wrote: post #29

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Gotta say, I was not expecting one of the first casualties of the AI revolution to be most of the CSAM industry, but I'm dang happy about it.

I would worry about normalization of the behavior leading to more people seeking the real thing.

Right, and video games cause violence.

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Post by cm2012 »

EatingWithForks wrote: post #34

I for one am interested why it's specifically AI girlfriend ads and not AI boyfriend ads. Heterosexual women are huge consumers of e.g. dating simulators, romance books, et al. that envision perfect men, bad boys with sweet hearts, wealthy powerful high-earning men who somehow always make time for the beloved. You'd think there'd be just as many AI boyfriend ads-- what teenaged girl wouldn't pay huge money to date $p…

It will absolutely be popular with women eventually. Erotica is just so incredibly popular. It's just that men make these AI tools so the first products will serve their needs.
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