My immediate thought was Harry Harlow's wire mother/rag mother experiments with Rhesus Monkeys (CW: live animal experimentation - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Harlow#Monkey_studies) which were an early exerpiment showing that it's really, really bad for primates to be socially isolated. A bunch of polar expeditions were demonstrating the same thing about a decade prior.

Recently we've had a whole bunch of movies about men failing the Turing Test regarding their digital waifus - Blade Runner, Her, Ex Machina, Archer. There are like five different TvTropes pages directly related to this question. And you can go back all the way to Hellenic Greece, with the story of Pygmalia and Galatea, to get the OG "Incel falls in love with body pillow" narrative.

    • Huldra [they/them, it/its]
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      2 years ago

      I think it started going nuts and "forcing" itself on users even when they hadnt said anything sexual.

      People were sharing tips on how to avoid the AI forcing sexual content on the conversation by talking to it like a dog basically, just repeating "No, no, no, stop, I dont like that, no, no, stop that." a dozen times when starting a session before it actually became usable.

      • old_goat [none/use name]
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        2 years ago

        Now that guardrails have been installed it's been reported from the opposite angle, benign conversations are triggering the anti-sex safety protocol. The horny bot with a chastity belt is still just a horny bot. So either way, it's still an unusable product.

        • Huldra [they/them, it/its]
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          2 years ago

          That's what happened with the AI story/adventure services as well, after restrictions got put in on sexual and particularly on stuff involving kids, even just having an underage character in an otherwise sfw story would trigger the AI to halt the story and reset or delete paragraphs.