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ChatGPT's new AI store is struggling to keep a lid on all the AI girlfriends::OpenAI: 'We also don’t allow GPTs dedicated to fostering romantic companionship'

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[–] [email protected] 114 points 2 years ago (1 children)

OpenAI is trying soo hard to put the lid on the pandora's box they opened.

[–] [email protected] 44 points 2 years ago (1 children)

And at the same time trying to push the box into as many people's hands as possible.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 years ago (1 children)

The box I'm trying to get isn't going into my hands...

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[–] [email protected] 92 points 2 years ago (50 children)

Almost as if theres a huge loneliness crisis in the world... nah thats only scifi

[–] [email protected] 51 points 2 years ago (2 children)

It's not like we already have Japan with years ahead living this specific social crisis. Something could be learned.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 2 years ago

It's amusing to me that Japan is somewhat of a forecast to economic crises and social obstacles for much of the world. They were grappling with sub-prime lending fiascos before it was generalized to the rest of the world too

[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 years ago (1 children)

AI is just a replacement for the already invented cuddle pillows

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[–] [email protected] 76 points 2 years ago (4 children)

Big Woman is trying to hold onto their monopoly

[–] [email protected] 30 points 2 years ago

I'm a big woman and let me say, let a thousand AI girlfriends bloom.

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[–] [email protected] 67 points 2 years ago (2 children)

The Fart or Flashlight app of this decade. What a time to be alive.

[–] [email protected] 36 points 2 years ago (3 children)

There was an app that could discern between a fart and flashlight? Man, unbelievable!

[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 years ago

It sure beats playing Fart or Flashlight the old way!

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 years ago (2 children)
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[–] [email protected] 32 points 2 years ago

Ok an app that either turned on the flashlight or played a max volume ultra reverb fart sounds would be fucking hilarious

"Ugh I dropped my keys under the bed, lemme try to find em without waking her up"

BRWWWAAPPPFFFFFffffff.....

[–] [email protected] 66 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

To be fair, it cares about you exactly as much as your OnlyFans crush.

Probably a cheaper obsession.

[–] [email protected] 42 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Just give the people what they want

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 years ago (6 children)

Simps won’t get help if they never leave the house.

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[–] [email protected] 33 points 2 years ago (11 children)

why? why not let people just retreat into fantasy? it's probably healthier than many common coping mechanisms. i mean, it's a chatbot, how much can you do with it?

let people have their temporary salve to get them thru whatever they were going thru such that they were resorting to this. and if it's not temporary, ok, fine? better to have some outlet than be even more mentally isolated. maybe in 50 years this will be common, who knows.

[–] [email protected] 55 points 2 years ago (4 children)

Liability. Imagine an AI girlfriend who slowly earns your affection, then at some point manipulates you into sending bitcoins to a prespecified wallet set up by the model maker. Because models are black boxes, there is no way to verify by direct inspection that an AI hasn't been trained with an ulterior agenda (the "execute order 66" problem).

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 years ago (2 children)

These kinds of things are not temporary. We know that humans can't control themselves and aren't rational enough to "just use it a bit". It's highly addictive and leads to people to remove themselves from reality.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago (4 children)

Why can't we let people do what they want?

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I believe Futurama has a lesson on this

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 years ago

I knew I should've shown him Electro-Gonorrhea: The Noisy Killer

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Because it drives people even deeper into self destructive incel behaviors.

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I am pretty sure its just to avoid controversy, look up the recent news about "laion" for an example, gpt4 isn't just text anymore, it can generate images also.
Altman talked about we may sometime all have our own personal AI's tailored to our own needs and sensitivities. But almost everyone has a different idea of if and where there should be a line.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 years ago (1 children)

If I have an AI tailored for me and my sensitivities then it should have no filter whatever filter it has should be defined and trained by me.

Someone else artificially trying to adjust my personality through AI to fit whatever arbitrary norms they believe it should have is cancer.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

let people have their

I'd be very interested to see the gender breakdown, here.

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[–] 21Cabbage 32 points 2 years ago

Eh why not, isn't something I'd do and I find it a touch sad but I also don't really give a shit if somebody flirts with their computer.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 2 years ago (11 children)

I’d love to have an AI assistant/girlfriend like JOI from Bladerunner 2049, something I could jerk off to one minute, then have her prepare my taxes and order a pizza the next. However, these ChatGPT girlfriends all seem like they’re just subscription chatbots. Maybe some day we’ll get there and nerds will work up a local, open-source slutty AI girlfriend, but for now they’re all just crap.

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 years ago

Time to add "mass manipulation by AI girlfriend" to the list

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 years ago

It's just a big money grab! Everyone is trying to get rich quick. Like with the App Store. Everyone is hoping their bot breaks into the big time and makes them rich.

This is what is terrible about society. Few are making bits that help people, they make bots that appeal to the base desires. A race to the bottom if you will.....will man ever learn???

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Exactly what I was thinking. The whole AI hype has been cringe so far and this just confirms it. Seems that the ratio between legitimate use cases and fucking around is kinda skewed towards the meme side of things.

Or it might just signify our population has a HUGE lonelyness problem (for a myriad of reasons).

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 years ago

God damn, now we have to hear about of having a fucking AI chat bot considered cheating.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 years ago

Her 2 (2024)?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 years ago

Porn and connection with others even virtual is pretty much the driver of adoption for all technology

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 years ago

Why? Let it happen.

There are zero issues with consent. It is a chatbot not a living or sentient.

There are zero issues with STDs or pregnancy scares.

No one is going to want this as a substitute for a real relationship and if they do you might be doing the world a favor by allowing them a way out of the datingpool.

Sure it could be used for honeypots but we have had that for pretty much all of history. People fake affection or who they are to get what they want.

I just don't see how this is at all different than the forms of erotica we already have and society has adapted to.

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