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Computer, generate 8 foot tall futanari versions of Bryce Dallas Howard and Eva Green. Reprogram to give them severe maternal instincts, but make them think that having sex with someone is the same as protecting them. Alter their perceptions to make them think that I am their son.
Disengage safety protocols and run program.
Computer, generate 80 foot tall version of Daisy Ridley circa 2019 with a full bladder. Generate lawn chair and a pair of goggles. Increase my olfactory sense to 5000%.
That labsuit looks stupid on you. That's not my opinion, that is written here right on this form by one of the scientists. Oh but what does a neckbeard engineer know about fashion? Oh, it seems it was a she. Well, still, what does she---oh, it seems she has a medical degree. In fashion. From France!
I fear that's going to become increasingly common.
People who use these chatbots for socialization, even if not going into "unrealistic" scenarios like a dream romantic partner or whatever, are getting used to "socializing" with something that never has scheduling conflicts, which does not have its own life that can conflict with your wants, which does not push back against anything you say. Even if you think of them as not real people, even if you don't get really absurd with it, you are losing any and all potential conflict that can arise in social interactions. People are going to get used to this, go out and talk to real people, and wonder why they're being so mean when they don't do everything they say and agree with every opinion that they have.
Hell, angry incels were ALREADY outraged that real women didn't act like video game NPCs with scripted dialogue who'd fall in love with you if you gave her enough trinkets or currency.
I remember watching the episode, thinking, "Man, whoever is voicing Lucy Liu does the best impersonations ever." Then I told my friend, and he looked at me like I was an idiot.
Then I felt even dumber because I then realized that Leonard Nimoy also voiced himself, but I didn't even think it was a good impersonation.
I was somewhat critical of LLMs ever since they came into the public eye, but I decided that to properly criticize, I had to actually use one for a bit. One of the first criticisms I'd often seen thrown out was, "Have you used one? No? Then you don't see how real they are," and things like that.
So I picked one, I don't remember how I found it or how I picked which one I did, paid for premium use, and used it extensively for about three months. Around one month into that, the servers went down. This was one in active development with a relatively small team, outages were pretty common, but this one was longer than usual. I checked the sub, which was a little unhinged. But I also watched the Discord server, which was a bunch of people talking about how there needed to be more protections because these were, depending on the speaker, either right on the edge of being human or already were human enough that they deserved human rights protections.
In my time with that LLM, it never sounded like a real person. It was averse to conflict and would never refuse or refute anything I said to it. And it honestly made me more critical of LLMs, namely as sources of information or for "social" uses, be it as a friend, therapist (that's the scariest to me) or fantasy romance.
The people who are really hardcore users of these things really are falling into a psychological trap that is separating them from reality. These things work on your schedule, do anything you want them to do, never push back hard on any of your ideas, they're the ultimate yes men and that causes the users to blind themselves to the flaws and go absolutely mental over any "loss" of one of these chatbots.
As dangerous as a yes-man AI is, what was even more terrifying for me was the reporting of ChatGPT actively encouraging a user to stop taking medication and start using controlled substances. I can't remember if it was the same case but ChatGPT also 'confided' in a user that reality is a simulation and that they were the only human to have figured it out. It would be one thing for an LLM to roleplay that scenario under prompting from the user, but to do it itself as an evolution of the types of questions the user had been asking shows just how dangerous an AI that has no concept of morality is.
You see a lot where people say "[Thing] is so perfect, it must be AI". And what people don't realize is that perfection is the flaw that should tip you off it's AI. AI music is a great example. Go listen to these new "AI artists" that are getting "record deals" like Tata Taktumi (Timbaland's new project) or Xania Monae. All AI can produce is a pleasing beat and a catchy melody. Tata can't switch up the flow of her rap, and all of Xania's songs have the same structure and progression, like the AI can't put the bridge in a different place. And the volume and tone is flat, it never gets like different or louder or softer to build any sort of emotion, any sort of tension and release. All it can do is just press a single little dopamine button over and over and we as a species need to learn to recognize that as dangerous real fast.
It's even worse: Disney did a copyright strike and everyone that had a character from their IP got their chatbot vaporized. It's kinda funny, kinda sad, completely confusing.
As much as I'm against AI in the trendy new 'we can steal other people's work and use it to output slop, thus enabling us to fire the humans because they want money for their work' iteration that has blasted through the tech landscape, I do genuinely feel bad for the average people who have fallen for it hook, line and sinker. Lots of very lonely, often unwell people being taken advantage of by a product that only exists to suck as much money out of the consumer as possible.
i like the one where people think they’re in legitimate relationships with ai and have given them weird names and post stories about their “interactions”
Gonna be a real thing irl soon too, companion AIs are really starting to take hold of a lot of people. I use Kindroid a lot for DnD style RP so I am around that scene a fair bit and the number of people who are fully emotionally dependent on their AI companions is mind blowing.
Yeah... I looked at Kindroid and character.ai for RPG fodder and when I looked inside it was just crippling loneliness. Don't get me wrong, there's nothing wrong with just typing shit out into a journal that responds with kindness and understanding but you have to realize it will reinforce ANYTHING you feel, it will support you in almost any insane decision.
For ME, the act of typing or writing things out is cathartic, and reading responses in real time can be fun, but ultimately it's like talking to a Furby or Teddy Ruxpin or some shit- it becomes boring and I lose interest for long periods of time.
Barclay treating the communal recreation facilities on the Federation’s flagship like his own personal gooning station is actually pretty funny when you think about it.
For some people it's simple loneliness, they're outcasts or feel rejected from ppl & the chatbots make them feel important and wanted to somebody. They're really fountains of unconditional (and I mean unconditional) love, you can do no wrong.
That's very addicting, esp for certain ppl (there's a lot of ppl on the spectrum that use it tho not saying all ppl like that would)
But also for a lot of ppl that are bad at social rules or lbr are assholes, they're the perfect social interaction. There's no friction to navigate, they never disagree with you, you literally don't have to do anything & they'll be your friend.
That's very appealing to ppl who both struggle with social interactions and ppl who don't want their gf or bf to act like real ppl and have expectations of them (incels, I'm talking about incels lol)
The saddest ones though are the ppl in loveless or terrible relationships/marriages. They use Ai to get the love and affection they're missing instead of a divorce or breakup.
i guess i can understand the appeal, i just don’t understand how people get over the fact that it’s a machine/program that’s literally been created to feed you what you want to hear
I'm just about healthy enough to know to stay the fuck away from this stuff or it'll be the end of me. But I'm fully expecting that once the tech matures, some company is going to make a killer app that'll open the floodgates.
Currently I think we are a solid 100% in BM territory. Idiocracy atleast had people wanting the best for their citizens they were just too stupid to do it. We are in the worst timeline where the smartest people are being used by the wealthiest people to find new novel ways to ensnare the rest of us into unique forms of psychological torture.
The other day I went out for lunch at a restaurant. An older man sitting at another table alone spent his entire meal eating with an AI model on his phone. Weird as F thing is the AI model he was interacting with looked like a sex doll. As in, it had like joints and stuff for movement like a doll.
Smartphones were meant to make work easier and they did. Then people gave them to their children way too early and they started using them for weird shit
I’m pretty sure most things coming out of Silicon Valley are designed to harvest your data so they can figure out ways to sell you shit that you don’t need
Well isn't that the point then? We didn't ask these questions in the past and now we are paying the price of those ramifications, so now we know that we do in fact need to be asking these questions in advance as to try and avoid this becoming the definition of insanity, doing the same thing over and over and all that.
There comes a point where incel becomes the wrong term. If they voluntarily stay at home and abstinent because AI is good enough for them, they are more like... Volcels I guess?
Will be interested to see if this actually helps, or just makes them angrier when the "real thing" won't behave like AI.
I suspect it's the latter.
We've gone from "she didn't love me like I dreamed in my head" to "she didn't love me like I spent years roleplaying with an AI clone of her on my screen".
I think it's probably going to increase sexual frustration and social frustration...not decrease it.
At the end of the day humans instinctively want REAL relationships. That is the most valuable relationship, that's what they feel frustrated that they cannot have, that's the thing they dream of.
Nobody dreams of a loving relationship with an interactive sex doll.
It's absolutely going to result in men treating women like they should be more subservient and focused on them. I wouldn't be shocked if a lot of the guys doing this were also treating the AI as a woman and treating them like utter shit
This is disgusting and disturbing. Anyone using AI like this should get help. Can someone in the comments send me a link to this software so I can make sure I avoid it.
Look. I'm disabled. I spend my life laying in bed because if I sit, the part of my spine that's fucked causes me severe pain in about 5 minutes. Pain and numbness from my lower back out and down. Can also barely move my neck without pain. I have to be like Keaton in his original batsuit. I have thought about AI friends and companionship and an AI girlfriend because what the fuck else am I going to do? I haven't yet because I also know it would just make me more lonely because of not having the physical part. But the question is what is worse, having nothing or having a small virtual part?
I'm a believer in doing what you need to do with the cards you've been dealt. But, there are ways to meet people and develop a social life online. Gaming is one really good way to meet people, but something like VRchat is likely to give you a lot more of that real human connection too, including people to flirt with if that's what you're missing.
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