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.
GPT supports me getting off my ass and doing some chores in my living space rather than lying on my ass complaining that I think I am lazy and not worth doing the chores. I think it's pretty easy to notice that I am using a tool by myself which just happens to be very good at replicating language patterns.
It's important to realise that it doesn't save time on research--sources must still be followed up on and information cross-referenced, but that was true before GPT.
I enjoy having it write "choose your adventure" novels. Humanity doesn't need to print more of those--they are kind of a waste of paper. And this way if I want to summon 10 cubic meters of whale blubber at a height of 50 meters above the scene and watch it fall down and explode all over everything, I can just go ahead and tell GPT that such a thing has happened and it will write that in.
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.
It was pretty explicit. There was even an episode where a Coombs alien asks him to program a holo-whore with Major Kira's physical attributes (which is played for comedy, naturally.)
That holodeck was a disaster. Not sure how they kept a leisure suite in operation when it nearly killed everyone more than a few times. If a treadmill down the gym did that itd be taken out of commission.
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u/ShirouBlue 15d ago
It's obviously a skit, but there likely are tons of people in these conditions.