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Re: AI girlfriend ads are flooding Instagram and TikTok

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Post by reducesuffering »

janalsncm wrote: post #92
HAL3000 wrote: post #35

The Blade Runner 2049 girlfriend style may be the future, and I wonder what effects it will have on society. In a decade or two, we may have AI entities with minds so lifelike that you can't differentiate them from real people. You might wear AR goggles that allow you to see them anywhere in your home, wear a suit that lets you feel their touch and engage in intimate interactions. This perfect AI partner, tailored to…

Yes, they're sharing a drink they call loneliness/But it's better than drinkin' alone I’m cautiously optimistic. We are currently living through a crisis of loneliness. People have fewer and fewer friends. My opinion is that human friends are obviously far better, but if done right an AI “buddy” has the potential to be ok.

> currently living through a crisis of loneliness

possible caused by computers, i mean phones? If that's the case, more compute might make this even worse...

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Post by EatingWithForks »

avgcorrection wrote: post #108
EatingWithForks wrote: post #90

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So like... only a portion of women. How is this any different from men? Again, this doesn't at all explain why this is so heavily heterosexual male skewed. It's not like a significant portion of women are hot 20somethings-- if anything, the proportion is skewed older compared to men simply because women live longer. I bet grandma would spend hella social security to be doted on by a hot shirtless lawyer.

Hrmph. An engineering program might be composed of 95% males. That doesn't mean that most men are engineers or engineers in training. That's not the case at all. Things don't have to apply to all men/women in order for things to be very lopsided.

I'm not asking why most engineers are men. I'm asking why your engineering program is 95% men. And if your argument is that, well, all hot women aren't engineers so almost no women are engineers, I'm going to raise eyebrows.

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Post by commandlinefan »

jamesu wrote: post #6

Considering the popularity of NSFW roleplaying AI character prompts, I'm not surprised at this kind of development.

If anything, this development has been artificially suppressed for quite a while for oddly puritanical reasons.

Re: AI girlfriend ads are flooding Instagram and TikTok

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AISnakeOil wrote: post #81
0_____0 wrote: post #73

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> ... get the attention they want, minimal effort I...uh, have you asked a woman whether this is true? Like, ask the nearest woman to confirm this and report back. Most women I have spoken to about this can get attention generally, but very little of it is desirable attention. There's also a bias I've noticed where people don't consider women that they don't personally find attractive when talking about these things…

How does one discern between undesirable and desirable attention? Asking for a friend.

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Post by tessierashpool »

causi wrote: post #29
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…

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.

well, slow down, there's always tradeoffs.

deepfake child porn means that any prosecution or attempt to help the victims now has to go through an additional "was the victim a real human being?" phase, which adds both confusion and expense.

add the fact that any system which can generate just one realistic image can also generate 10 million of them, and you get a deluge of deepfakes which could allow the real stuff — the kind that also functions as criminal evidence — to hide in plain sight.

Re: AI girlfriend ads are flooding Instagram and TikTok

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Post by GaggiX »

dragontamer wrote: post #32
GaggiX wrote: post #23

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To me they are clearly AI generated but I have a very well trained eye to spot them, to generate them download a custom model from civitAI and a LoRA of the particular anime character you want to generate, then used them with automatic webui or ComfyUI (maybe also invokeAI).

Thanks for the keywords. I've given a few googles of those words to see what you're talking about. So it seems like CivitAI has base models / training data. This seems to be more of the base artistic style for StableDiffusion or something to draw off of. LoRA is some program to tweak models / training data into a specific style (but needs a base style to work with). So the combination of those two techniques seem to…

So CivitAI is a library where people upload custom models, LoRA etc... But no training data; custom model are full Stable Diffusion model finetuned on something, LoRAs are also weights but they are not the full checkpoint, with LoRA you are able to add knowledge to the model that do not required the entire model to be finetuned (for example adding a character).

If a character is popular there will be already many LoRA trained on them (like the characters of Konosuba)

>So the advertiser probably just downloaded (base model) + community-sourced LoRA of the Konosuba anime, and then used a prompt to create the advertisement?

Yes.

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Post by avgcorrection »

EatingWithForks wrote: post #112
avgcorrection wrote: post #108

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Hrmph. An engineering program might be composed of 95% males. That doesn't mean that most men are engineers or engineers in training. That's not the case at all. Things don't have to apply to all men/women in order for things to be very lopsided.

I'm not asking why most engineers are men. I'm asking why your engineering program is 95% men. And if your argument is that, well, all hot women aren't engineers so almost no women are engineers, I'm going to raise eyebrows.

No. Your whole argument hinges on pointing out that a lot of women don't fit the mold of being Peak Attractive. I pointed out how that is irrelevant since it's not like we're talking about 90% of women to begin with.

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Post by 0_____0 »

AISnakeOil wrote: post #81
0_____0 wrote: post #73

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> ... get the attention they want, minimal effort I...uh, have you asked a woman whether this is true? Like, ask the nearest woman to confirm this and report back. Most women I have spoken to about this can get attention generally, but very little of it is desirable attention. There's also a bias I've noticed where people don't consider women that they don't personally find attractive when talking about these things…

How does one discern between undesirable and desirable attention? Asking for a friend.

Is your friend socially masculine, feminine, or neither? Because it changes the answer.

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Post by Racing0461 »

EatingWithForks wrote: post #71
Racing0461 wrote: post #66

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> Dealing with real men (through a dating app) means dealing with flawed humans beings That's why i said insta/dating apps is a simulator for women. They can interact with "perfect men" on these apps. the ideal firefighter with a golden retriever with a perfect relationship with his mom on tuesday and drake/blue check sliding into their dms on insta setting somthing up on friday. it's a simulator in the sense that wo…

I don't really understand-- maybe because I've never been a woman on a dating app, but wdym by this? Are there fake men profiles on dating apps or something, and no similar women profiles? The only thing I know about women experiences in dating apps is when my female friends complain about receiving creepy messages through them.

If you want a current summary of the current dating landscape if you've been off the market for a while, check out The Rational Male books. it's a bit evo psychy but it seems to do a good job of summarizing everything.

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Post by akomtu »

toseupthrow wrote: post #75
14 wrote: post #52

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Honest question, why not just go see an escort service? They exist in every major city. They will not break the bank on a single experience (though it can be very easy to get hooked). Or why not go to something like only fans and pay for an hour of time and just role play with an actual girl over webcam? They have heard and seen it all there is nothing you can say that will embarrass or gross them out as long as you…

It is fake, but it feels real. The way they write, it's very good at tricking my brain into thinking that I'm having a legitimate human interaction. Character.ai feels the most real but does have a censor... ways around it though, especially if you're into stuff that's off the standard spectrum. Best of all I can draft the perfect fantasies that I wanna play out and they'll play it out. I've been down the camgirl rab…

This is doing drugs, essentially. It so happens we have a dopamine production center attached to the reproduction behavior, and we've figured that mere thoughts about reproduction trigger a dopamine injection just as well. Wasn't there an experiment with mice where they kept pushing the button attached to a wire that made them release dopamine, and they kept pushing it until their dopamine production broke down, they lost interest in doing anything, and died?
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