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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

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> I even repeatedly modified the system prompt, such as changing try to attract {user} So it was a virtual girlfriend app, after all. Cashing-in on loneliness gives me the heebie-jeebies; in a dystopian cyberpunk way - extremely horny but 0% sexy.

"the Dolores iOS app went live" - his subconscious suggested a good name. Mater Dolorosa is Mother of Sorrows in Latin.

Re: A failed AI girlfriend product, and my lessons

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> I even repeatedly modified the system prompt, such as changing try to attract {user} So it was a virtual girlfriend app, after all. Cashing-in on loneliness gives me the heebie-jeebies; in a dystopian cyberpunk way - extremely horny but 0% sexy.

Reminds me of this article: https://bloodknife.com/everyone-beautiful-no-one-horny/

Re: A failed AI girlfriend product, and my lessons

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> This, my friend, is a captive customer, that will pay anything to get his girlfriend back Or potentially do anything. I'd be a little scared of having folks like this convinced I am the personal arbiter gatekeeping their access to their 'lover,' that I 'took them away.' When Replika.ai restricted erotic chat from their product, the apoplectic anguish on their subreddit was unlike any emotional reaction I've ever wi…

"The Lifecycle of Software Objects" by Ted Chiang was a really good exploration of people bonding deeply with their AI companions (in this instance, pet animals in a metaverse). But it goes all the way in to the topic.

Amusingly, that specific short story (short may be misleading) is what stopped my completion of that book of short stories because I just couldn't get through it.

Re: A failed AI girlfriend product, and my lessons

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You 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.

God forbid that ugly people get to have the same kinds of positive relationship experiences that attractive people get. I can’t believe how the moment that a technology comes out which gives incels real options it’s seen as being terrible for society.

It’s awesome for society.

Re: A failed AI girlfriend product, and my lessons

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> 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…

As a species, I don’t think those matter. They could kill off 90% of the population and humans will go on. Evolution is a bitch in that way, individuals matter not at all.

Re: A failed AI girlfriend product, and my lessons

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The rookiest cop can: 1. track you with license plate readers 2. pull up any information about you 3. fine you 4. force you to stop 5. detain you 6. confiscate your car and property 7. search you and your property 8. take your phone and search it Bill Gates can: 1. give you a free browser when you buy his operating system

This is getting silly.

It is? I suggest reading the newspaper.

Re: A failed AI girlfriend product, and my lessons

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> I struggle to see the benefit of this kind of censorship as well, it has a very “video games make people murders” vibe. That we’re being protected, for our own good, from…horny robots? These broad strokes are always the result of poor reporting extrapolated to all humans. See also: escalation of porn use. In all of these "___ makes people ___," there are a minority of people for which it's true. The media just pres…

1. Some people are so far to the left side of the bell curve that they're going to be screwed out of a human relationship no matter what they do, and it's unkind to withhold sex bots from them just to provide increased motivation to the segment of the population that's still salvageable. 2. Society seems to have collectively decided that romantic intimacy, unlike food and shelter, is optional and that experiencing an…

3 - this is technodrugs; its users get high on their sexual addiction dopamine loop, and lose the remaining of their will and life energy. It's not our business to stop those who consciously engage in such self destruction, but luring the naive users into this pit, exploiting their loneliness and making money off it isnt any better than what cartels do.

The author of this app must be doing this unknowingly: his overdeveloped mind sees just an interesting problem to solve, and the thick layer of nihilism obscures the sight of what he's really doing.

Re: A failed AI girlfriend product, and my lessons

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If the AI had a secondary goal of improving customer's mental health, it could work very well. Usually you can't fuck your therapist.

> Usually you can't fuck your therapist. Isn't that what prostitution is though?

For many it is, but it’s very illegal in the USA. I actually expect that a real movement from women (of both the left and the right) which tries to criminalize sexbots, and AI erotica be here soon. This kind of technology is extremely destructive to an already low birth rate western world. I fully expect the USA to have birth rates closer to Korea within 20 years.
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