A failed AI girlfriend product, and my lessons

Post by red-iron-pine » Thu, Nov 16, 2023, 5:30 PM UTC

FartyMcFarter wrote: post #8

This 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’.

Post by whywhywhywhy » Thu, Nov 16, 2023, 6:47 PM UTC

feintruled wrote: post #7

Well 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,…

Post by aidenn0 » Thu, Nov 16, 2023, 6:51 PM UTC

amelius wrote: post #18

sva_ wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Maybe he shouldn't have named it after the most hated Harry Potter character.

More likely: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dolores_Abernathy

Post by butlike » Thu, Nov 16, 2023, 6:53 PM UTC

optimalsolver wrote: post #44

cornholio wrote: post #24

> GPT-based products, if not priced per usage, would fall into a dilemma: 1% of users consume 99% of tokens. A user from Sweden (seen from Cloudflare’s call volume) chatted with Dolores for 12 hours straight This, my friend, is a captive customer, that will pay anything to get his girlfriend back. I cringe at the potential of unethical behavior and abuse, where people fall in love with virtual entities fully owned by…

It's going to be an interesting century for sure. The human mind is simply not evolutionary adapted for what's coming up.

Post by butlike » Thu, Nov 16, 2023, 6:54 PM UTC

pizza234 wrote: post #66

ekianjo wrote: post #52

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> The human mind is simply not evolutionary adapted for what's coming up. This can be said of pretty much everything humans ended up creating with technology so... not sure there's anything really new down the road. Humans adapt.

Humans adapt within boundaries. A couple of examples of things humans did not adapt to: - emphathy at distance; nowadays, a drone operator will push a button, kill a dozen people, and feel like it was a videogame - prioritizing long-term and abstract rewards, over short term ones; this is the reason why we have phenomenons like global warming - adjusting hunger to virtually unlimited availability of food All the abov…