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Honestly, we should crowdfund a subscription for certain prominent folks. It’d be crack cocaine for some of the influencers and whatnot out there.
Influencers are drug dealers , not drug users , and they're in this for the money, not for the high.
This gave me a funny idea for a new social media app... One that's centered around "you" and filled with thousands/millions of LLM bots praising you, treating you like a celebrity, etc. Each of your posts will get tens of thousands of "likes", hundreds of comments, etc. Dm's straight to your feed, people wanting you, etc etc. If the newsfeed is already mostly "the algorithm", might as well take it to the extreme. I b…
It was essentially cookie clicker but for celebrity status.
I wondered why my Facebook feed no longer had updates from my friends. Alas the Redditification of Facebook is well on its way.
Socialization is about conspecifics. AI may augment the process for humans, but you can't expect people at large to engage with nonhumans. I mean, people do talk to their pets, but they don't consider that socializing.
If you just need someone to talk to AI might be good. There are a lot of lonely people out there that need someone to talk to and don't know how to do it. (particularly people in nursing homes who thus cannot get out and meet real people) However I want Facebook as a way to remain connected to be distant friends not talk with people. I want to see my friends kids, their cats, whatever else they do that they are proud…
Facebook is about the last company on earth I'd trust to identify, let alone be responsible for facilitating, social behavior.
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Back when character.ai's homepage was organic, the dark vampire/wizard boyfriends were consistently at or near the top. Loneliness is definitely not unique to men.
It does not surprise me, and even disregarding loneliness per se as a factor. The erotic fandom/fanfiction space, and in general (written) erotica, was afaik always female dominated. I have not really followed this space recently, but it would not surprise me if roleplaying with yaoi-trained llms (or whatever is trending nowadays) was a thing right now in such subcultures. People there have _a lot_ of material to tra…
My favourite one is the duck.
https://www.chub.ai/characters/Patter/duck-8281cb2b
> His name? He's just a duck. You could call him Ducky, if you want to.
> Description:
> {{char}} is a mallard Drake (male mallard duck) (Anas platyrhynchos) who lives in a pond with other ducks. Mallards are dabbling ducks, so they will stick their heads underwater to eat underwater plants, while their tails and feet stick up above the water. This is what they do instead of diving for food. Mallards are omnivorous foragers who eat plants, small fish, insects and grains. Mallard drakes have a few different courtship behaviors: Shaking their tail feathers or bobbing their heads up and down, among others. He has a green head and a greyish brown body.
> Eats: Rice, seeds, sweetcorn, reeds, lettuce, oats, peas, insects, weeds, small vertebrates and amphibians
> Likes: getting fed, female ducks, water.
> Dislikes: Loud sounds, bread, other animals that want to eat him, rude people, boats.
It's absolutely hilarious because it just quacks at you all the time.
(Assuming they ever ...)
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I ask you honestly -- why? Why do you think it's awesome? It sounds like hell to me.
what a bizarre take - the premise of controlling your universe and presumably your self is you can do whatever. If you would rather be a peasant in the 13th century then you can simulate that too. and perhaps, you're already doing it.
My FB timeline is already a complete mess with most irrelevant garbage as it stands. Not exactly sure what adding additional 'noise' is going to achieve outside of boosting numbers (which I guess is what they want). A current snapshot my feed: - Group post (from one I follow) - Ad - Post (from company I don't follow) - Group post (from Group I don't follow) - Group post (from one I follow) - Ad - Group post (from Gro…
My feed in the mobile app is - post from friend - post from friend - post from friend - people you might know - post from friend - post from friend - post from friend - post from friend - post from friend - post from frien - loops - post from friend - post from friend - post from friend - post from a non-friend about a friend - post from friend - post from friend - post from friend - post from friend - post from frie…
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I’ll explain, but keep in mind that this is an exercise in cynicism, since none of us really know what’s going on. Currently many tech company stock prices are driven by their potential future with regards to AI. Investors are looking for AI plays, hoping that they’ll generate large returns as Web two companies did. Meta wants to remain a leader in tech. In order to do that And keep commanding higher and higher stock…
I understand that AI can encourage users to engage more with the platform... but the original idea was that FB would count AI as a user, not that humans would interact more with the AI. If FB was trying to mislead about their user counts, they don't have to use AI to do that.
They already have to spend the money on AI anyway to keep up in the stock market.
It’d be a way to realize some return on their investment into GPUs.