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Re: AI girlfriend ads are flooding Instagram and TikTok

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Post by lcnPylGDnU4H9OF »

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.

It's the difference between a stalker and a secret admirer. The person receiving the attention decides its desirability.

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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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Re: AI girlfriend ads are flooding Instagram and TikTok

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Post by nkingsy »

michaelt wrote: post #62
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…

> It appears that the primary use case for both of these open source tools currently is NSFW Bear in mind, people who only need SFW images can get AI image generation online for free, from the likes of craion/midjourney/dall-e. Whereas it sounds like you needed a 'second 3090' i.e. the open source option needed you to own 2x$900 of hardware. Why would someone who wanted SFW images choose the $1800 open source option…

The second one is for 70b llama models, and I paid $600 each.

Stable diffusion is available to pretty much any computer. Dreambooth requires a lot of vram, which is how I use it (creating recurrent characters)

Re: AI girlfriend ads are flooding Instagram and TikTok

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Post by decafninja »

EatingWithForks wrote: post #106
decafninja wrote: post #100

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All of those "simulate" not just a companion, but the whole relationship scenario, which I've been told is what women are attracted to? Whereas men are simpler creatures attracted to any woman that is visually hot. The former is a lot harder to implement than the latter.

But the whole relationship scenario exactly what you'd want an AI partner for, is my bafflement. If I want porn I have plenty of free stuff on PornHub et al. There's no reason to get an intelligent anything, artificial or not, if I actually just want generated fap material. It's obviously selling companionship as well as porn, which is definitely more what I see in erotica, which I already know is fairly formuliac as…

Maybe in the future, but I would describe the current state of things as selling "interactivity", not really a "relationship".

Also, even if we were to call it a "relationship", I'd say it's a lot easier to cater to the typical male wants of a "relationship" through the current (and near future) state of AI than the typical female wants.

Disclaimer: The usual stuff about "not all men/women etc. etc."

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Post by moneywoes »

14 wrote: post #52
toseupthrow wrote: post #41

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> 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…

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…

I doubt those are real women on the other end of those OF conversations

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Post by fragmede »

m_fayer wrote: post #101
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…

I had the “fortune” to experience what happens to a budding physical relationship when your nose suddenly stops working, thanks to covid. What happened was that a previously powerful physical chemistry would fizzle a few minutes into the act, leaving me empty, puzzled, and upset. That experience showed me that, unless we somehow manage virtual smells and pheromones, no amount of vr or haptics will make that bladerunn…

While we're a long way from having device for smells like the television, due to the physics involved, an air diffuser that released a specific smell at a specific time is pretty easy to make.

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Post by RajT88 »

EatingWithForks wrote: post #106
decafninja wrote: post #100

Earlier quoted context omitted.

All of those "simulate" not just a companion, but the whole relationship scenario, which I've been told is what women are attracted to? Whereas men are simpler creatures attracted to any woman that is visually hot. The former is a lot harder to implement than the latter.

But the whole relationship scenario exactly what you'd want an AI partner for, is my bafflement. If I want porn I have plenty of free stuff on PornHub et al. There's no reason to get an intelligent anything, artificial or not, if I actually just want generated fap material. It's obviously selling companionship as well as porn, which is definitely more what I see in erotica, which I already know is fairly formuliac as…

> There's no reason to get an intelligent anything, artificial or not, if I actually just want generated fap material.

For the huge demand among men - it's best to think about an AI girlfriend as an alternative to going to the strip club.

Sure, some guys go to strip clubs for just staring at naked women. But a huge (mostly unacknowledged) part of the appeal is the short-term companionship mixed in. The flirting, the ego stroking, all of it, just an attractive woman taking an interest in you and talking with you. Lots of guys I have talked to have had the experience of one of their buddies getting too drunk and "spilling their guts" to a stripper. That's not a thing that happens if you're just there to stare at bewbs.

In Asia, hostess clubs operate much more along the lines of this idea of emotional fulfillment. Strip clubs are part of the overall entertainment service sector, but really focus more on the bewbs aspect. In the West it's much more mixed in together instead of in two separate types of businesses.

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Post by thfuran »

avgcorrection wrote: post #104
nonethewiser wrote: post #102

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Development doesnt stop at 22. Think development of sex life, character, self-confidence, social skills, etc.

I suppose some people like to think that.

So you're saying you don't expect to change as a person between the ages of 22 and 72?

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Post by ThrowawayR2 »

jstarfish wrote: post #70
gostsamo wrote: post #17

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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.

> 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. I disagree. The potential is there, it just takes someone willing to do it. The incentives all align with making sexbots since they provide instant gratification. In reality, it's surrogacy-turned-dependence. There is a time and place for…

Sounds like the rosy predictions by past futurists that the invention of television would be used only for broadcast of educational programming and culturally uplifting material, resulting in a vastly more enlightened and knowledgeable public. Needless to say, that wasn't how things turned out.
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