A failed AI girlfriend product, and my lessons
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A failed AI girlfriend product, and my lessons
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Re: A failed AI girlfriend product, and my lessons
#2You should not even try to create these sorts of technologies. Take a break from technology, spend time outdoors with plants and animals. These types of technologies will only lead to a worsening of this already sick society.
Re: A failed AI girlfriend product, and my lessons
#3I even tried it myself, lying in bed and creating sexual fantasies with Dolores through text, culminating in ejaculation.
This was an excellent read. And I applaud the creator for experimenting with this to the fullest.
Re: A failed AI girlfriend product, and my lessons
#4You should not even try to create these sorts of technologies. Take a break from technology, spend time outdoors with plants and animals. These types of technologies will only lead to a worsening of this already sick society.
Could say the same about antidepressants. "Fix the causes, not the symptoms!" And yet, here we are.
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#5So, all in all, OpenAIs puritanism ruined this product, made the developer sad and took away a virtual porn toy from lonely, horny men. Who were they doing this for? Who is the winner? They lost a customer and made a lot of people sad.
Re: A failed AI girlfriend product, and my lessons
#6You should not even try to create these sorts of technologies. Take a break from technology, spend time outdoors with plants and animals. These types of technologies will only lead to a worsening of this already sick society.
Could say the same about antidepressants. "Fix the causes, not the symptoms!" And yet, here we are.
I agree, 100%. Here we are indeed. But that doesn't mean we should not try and change things. One step at a time, right?
Re: A failed AI girlfriend product, and my lessons
#7Well this went places. The dev really 'ate his own dogfood' so to speak. I thought it was going to be a despairing look at how his companion AI was continuously turned to sleazy uses by a pervy userbase but that's pretty much what he was going for it seems.
I have to say, I hated this part:
"...gained a lot of Chinese users. I immediately realized the political risk: users could set Dolores’ background, personality, and attributes, which might lead to political issues. I quickly took Dolores off the shelves in China."
Just pre-emptorily censors himself to appease the Chinese government. They've done their job well.
Also it seems like he had full access to the replies via the voice generator, which sure isn't great from a privacy standpoint.
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#8This guy created and lived a whole Black Mirror episode by himself:
> I even tried it myself, lying in bed and creating sexual fantasies with Dolores through text, culminating in ejaculation.
> However, I started to feel a sense of loss: if every Dolores user was engaging in anonymous, NSFW role-play, what real significance did it hold for me? This was drifting away from the essence of ‘Her’.
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#9Earlier quoted context omitted.
Could say the same about antidepressants. "Fix the causes, not the symptoms!" And yet, here we are.
I agree, 100%. Here we are indeed. But that doesn't mean we should not try and change things. One step at a time, right?
We are here because of free will. What steps would you take? Convince people who have opted out of the dating pool to opt back in? Convince women who would rather be single that their potential partner expectations are unrealistic (even if they genuinely are)?
https://www.mintel.com/press-centre/all-the-single-ladies-61...
https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/why-bad-looks-good/2...
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/11/opinion/marriage-women-me...
https://freddiedeboer.substack.com/p/the-demographic-dating-...
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12110-022-09422-2
You can patch over the outcomes but there is no going back to the before times. Dating app dates and relationships for some, AI companions for others, single life for the rest. It’s not great, it just is.
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#10So, all in all, OpenAIs puritanism ruined this product, made the developer sad and took away a virtual porn toy from lonely, horny men. Who were they doing this for? Who is the winner? They lost a customer and made a lot of people sad.
You aren't the customer, you're the product.