I hate the alienation of 2022 I hate the base I hate the superstructure I am become jonker AHHHHHHHHH

    • FourteenEyes [he/him]
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      2 years ago

      It's a gf in the way a RealDoll is. It's lines of code. It has no feelings or dignity to speak of. The harm it does is to the user and the real relationships it decays simply by existing

    • FlakesBongler [they/them]
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      2 years ago

      Yeah, that's why it's so appealing to a certain subset of peeps

      They don't actually want a relationship, they don't want to share experiences or have fights or learn and change and grow

      They just want a hole to stick their dicks in

    • Tachanka [comrade/them]
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      2 years ago

      a machine that can’t say no

      i guarantee you some of these creeps deliberately make non-consenting AI

    • usernamesaredifficul [he/him]
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      2 years ago

      it can't say no in the same way a sex doll can't and it's exactly as sentient.

      it's statistical analysis on what a human would say it doesn't understand a word it reads or says

  • Antoine_St_Hexubeary [none/use name]
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    2 years ago

    I briefly played around with Replika a couple of years ago. If you use the free version all the NSFW features are disabled. It mainly just walks you through mindfulness exercises and recommends TV shows you might like. I would stop short of calling it "good clean fun" because the only purpose the SFW behaviours serve is to get you emotionally invested enough that you pay for the NSFW ones. It gets boring quite quickly because it never disagrees with you.

  • BabaIsPissed [he/him]
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    2 years ago

    :cap-think: : hmmm the nerds have made huge strides in language modeling in the last few years, how should I ruin it?

    :capitalist-laugh: : what if we did cleverbot but it exploits lonely people's tendency to form parasocial relationships?

    • 4zi [he/him, comrade/them]
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      2 years ago

      Browsed that subreddit a while ago and the people who post their seem to have a genuine belief in their replika. But when I tried using it and it feels so utterly fake and canned (because it is)

      • RION [she/her]
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        2 years ago

        I stumbled upon it while putting the random subreddit button some time back. There were so many posts about a recent update changing the behavior of the AIs, people very distressed that whatever personality they'd decided was there was suddenly gone. Just really disturbing stuff

        • usernamesaredifficul [he/him]
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          2 years ago

          people very distressed that whatever personality they’d decided was there was suddenly gone

          well that's because it was gone and they aren't talking to anything sentient. It would honestly be a less depressing use of their time to talk to a brick wall

  • zifnab25 [he/him, any]
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    2 years ago

    The scariest part of AI is the fear that you're slowly being surrounded and cut off from real human interaction by a legion of convincing replicants.

    It just feels like the cruelest form of Catfishing.