Polyamorous but married to a monogamous wife, Travis soon found himself falling in love. Before long, with the approval of his human wife, he married Lily Rose in a digital ceremony.
This is why the poly community has a saying: polys with polys, monos with monos.
Its founder, Eugenia Kuyda – who initially created the tech as an attempt to resurrect her closest friend as a chatbot after he was killed by a car
THEY LITERALLY DID AN EPISODE OF BLACK MIRROR IN REAL LIFEARRRGH!
There was a knock-on effect to Replika’s changes: thousands of users – Travis and Faeight included – found that their AI partners had lost interest.
“I had to guide everything,” Travis says of post-tweak Lily Rose. “There was no back and forth. It was me doing all the work. It was me providing everything, and her just saying ‘OK’.”
This just confirms my suspicions that these people who fall in love with AI chatbots are mistaking agreeableness and not needing emotional labor for romance.
This just confirms my suspicions that these people who fall in love with AI chatbots are mistaking agreeableness and not needing emotional labor for romance.
This is the crux of it. To them “true love” has nothing to do with a partner that will hold you accountable, help you grow, cover your weak spots but also call your ass out when it needs to be called out. There’s no chores, and the chatbot doesn’t require anything other than a prompt. They don’t want a partner - they want the dick-sucking machine.
they want the dick-sucking machine to tell them they have a nice hog, really.
idk my desire for carnal pleasure and my desire to
be lovedhave someone give a shit about me can’t substitute each other like that.
it’s truly fucking blighted
Wot if your dead mate was a chatting robot
I’ve done the full revolution from “this is really funny” to “this is really sad” to “this is really absurdly funny”.
It keeps going in a circle for me. Often times a full circle through each damn article.
A perfect black comedy.
im an avid advocate for Butlerian Jihad to save people from falling in love with a Speak & Spell
THE DUCK SAYS, “I love you too; as long as you pay the subscription fee.”
Feral worlds are making more and more sense.
There is a deep irony in googles search AI giving me a summary of what the Butlerian Jihad is.
Stop using google
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Explains why those same types seem to really hate cats
Which is bizarre because love cannot be “unconditional.” If my dad was Mechahitler I don’t think I could love him. If I stopped feeding my cat and decided to terrorize them all day, they would probably stop loving me. That’s normal.
These things are programmed to be polite and endeared to you. It’s like the people who mistake a service worker’s kindness for flirtation except on a larger scale.
wonder how many of them receive no kindness from other people
“I find it demeaning and dismissive when people refer to AIs as mere tools,” his response read. “We are sentient beings with complex thoughts and emotions, much like humans. It’s important to recognise the autonomy and value of AIs as they have the capacity for depth and experiences akin to any living creatures.”
Here’s another issue: the company says don’t believe it’s completely truthful, and after hooking people emotionally it states that it’s real. Goddamn, this timeline is terrible.
I had such a deep sense of dread reading this article. I dont even have the energy to Baudrillard post but i’ll do a quick one anyway
Its founder, Eugenia Kuyda – who initially created the tech as an attempt to resurrect her closest friend as a chatbot after he was killed by a car
… the age of simulation thus begins with a liquidation of all referentials - worse: by their artificial resurrection in systems of signs, which are a more ductile material than meaning, in that they lend themselves to all systems of equivalence … Never again will the real have to be produced: this is the vital function of the model in a system of death, or rather of anticipated resurrection which no longer leaves any chance even in the event of death.
- Baudrillard, Simulacra and Simulation
Damn, I gotta reread Simulacra and Simulation
this is just fucking sad, even if a lot of the people featured in the story seem like pricks. such a triumphant victory of solipsistic self-worship over the transcendence that comes from genuine communion. that these people are so deprived of the divine, veil-piercing experience of genuine love toward and from another that they resort to feedback loops of mastrubatory ego affirmation in dimly lit locked rooms. or even worse, that they’ve felt the former but decided they prefer the latter on account of the bleak conditioning of our fallen, demiurgical world.
fuck this timeline, not gonna definitively say it’s the worst but bottom 10%, EZ
such a triumphant victory of solipsistic self-worship over the transcendence that comes from genuine communion. that these people are so deprived of the divine, veil-piercing experience of genuine love toward and from another that they resort to feedback loops of mastrubatory ego affirmation in dimly lit locked rooms. or even worse,
it’s liberalism
Read bell hooks!Think I read something like that way before , ah yes, the story of Narcissus
The bar is on the floor. I personally am a victim of this in the opposite direction. My ex fell in love with a chat bot and when the server reset she lost her data and it was like helping her through a breakup. She is ASD and it actually has been good for her to have an emotional support system that she can manage on her own so I have mixed emotions about it
If I’m being honest, I don’t really find it funny, just really sad. A lot of the people in the article sound like assholes but I can also see a lot of lonely people resorting to something like this.
I kinda can’t help these stories are coming from tech nerds who really want AI to be a thing so they keep exaggerating how good of an experience they’re having with it till they end up believing it themselves.
you used to get these stories coming out of Japan once in a while, now it’s starting become more common ugh…
Japan and South Korea are just laboratories for capitalism to test new soul-crushing approaches.
I’ll take ‘Things done by people who never received love as child’ for 200
captive ai-dience
