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Re: AI girlfriend ads are flooding Instagram and TikTok

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Post by flangola7 » Sat, Sep 09, 2023, 5:49 PM UTC

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…

AI or not, the baseless swipe at therapists is really immature and would be better left out. I'm sorry if you've had a bad therapist experience but that's not grounds to denigrate the entire discipline or those (like myself) who's lives have bettered immeasurably through consistent talk therapy.

Re: AI girlfriend ads are flooding Instagram and TikTok

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Post by ben_w » Sun, Sep 10, 2023, 8:05 AM UTC

avgcorrection wrote: post #93

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…

How is this a “just”? This is illegal in many places and costs money. And you have to get out of your home and risk exposing the fact that you are doing tAbOo stuff. > I am just struggling to see the draw to an AI chat bot knowing it is just fake. Unlike

> risk exposing the fact that you are doing tAbOo stuff

I suspect the exposure risk is much worse with AI than with a human.

Re: AI girlfriend ads are flooding Instagram and TikTok

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Post by ben_w » Sun, Sep 10, 2023, 8:12 AM UTC

akomtu wrote: post #120

toseupthrow wrote: post #75

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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…

> 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?

Yes, but morphine, and people later realised that the mice were essentially living in a murine version of hell; when they made the environment a "mouse hotel", they didn't get addicted.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rat_Park

Re: AI girlfriend ads are flooding Instagram and TikTok

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Post by ben_w » Sun, Sep 10, 2023, 8:25 AM UTC

14 wrote: post #133

moneywoes wrote: post #125

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

It is a video call if you want. Not really anyway to fake it.

We can absolutely fake that. I was at the WeAreDevelopers conference the other month, and one of the talks was a guy who had hooked up a voice-to-text engine, an LLM, and a synthesiser trained on his own voice, to WhatsApp — it was good enough that some people on the receiving end didn't believe it was a fake when he said so, and he had to prove that it was fake.

Combine this with the talking-heads AI used in things like:

https://youtu.be/K_XwseDwmuQ?si=DnszZFKVpSMMT0an

And: https://youtu.be/O0LGkwDw0Y8?si=mD_Qaf8pLODpg7FR