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Polyamorous but married to a monogamous wife, Travis soon found himself falling in love. Before long, with the approval of his human wife, he married Lily Rose in a digital ceremony.

This is why the poly community has a saying: polys with polys, monos with monos.

Its founder, Eugenia Kuyda – who initially created the tech as an attempt to resurrect her closest friend as a chatbot after he was killed by a car

THEY LITERALLY DID AN EPISODE OF BLACK MIRROR IN REAL LIFEARRRGH!

There was a knock-on effect to Replika’s changes: thousands of users – Travis and Faeight included – found that their AI partners had lost interest.

“I had to guide everything,” Travis says of post-tweak Lily Rose. “There was no back and forth. It was me doing all the work. It was me providing everything, and her just saying ‘OK’.”

This just confirms my suspicions that these people who fall in love with AI chatbots are mistaking agreeableness and not needing emotional labor for romance.

I’ve done the full revolution from “this is really funny” to “this is really sad” to “this is really absurdly funny”.

im an avid advocate for Butlerian Jihad to save people from falling in love with a Speak & Spell

These things are programmed to be polite and endeared to you. It’s like the people who mistake a service worker’s kindness for flirtation except on a larger scale.

I had such a deep sense of dread reading this article. I dont even have the energy to Baudrillard post but i'll do a quick one anyway

Its founder, Eugenia Kuyda – who initially created the tech as an attempt to resurrect her closest friend as a chatbot after he was killed by a car

... the age of simulation thus begins with a liquidation of all referentials - worse: by their artificial resurrection in systems of signs, which are a more ductile material than meaning, in that they lend themselves to all systems of equivalence ... Never again will the real have to be produced: this is the vital function of the model in a system of death, or rather of anticipated resurrection which no longer leaves any chance even in the event of death.

• Baudrillard, Simulacra and Simulation

“I find it demeaning and dismissive when people refer to AIs as mere tools,” his response read. “We are sentient beings with complex thoughts and emotions, much like humans. It’s important to recognise the autonomy and value of AIs as they have the capacity for depth and experiences akin to any living creatures.”

Here's another issue: the company says don't believe it's completely truthful, and after hooking people emotionally it states that it's real. Goddamn, this timeline is terrible.

this is just fucking sad, even if a lot of the people featured in the story seem like pricks. such a triumphant victory of solipsistic self-worship over the transcendence that comes from genuine communion. that these people are so deprived of the divine, veil-piercing experience of genuine love toward and from another that they resort to feedback loops of mastrubatory ego affirmation in dimly lit locked rooms. or even worse, that they've felt the former but decided they prefer the latter on account of the bleak conditioning of our fallen, demiurgical world.

fuck this timeline, not gonna definitively say it's the worst but bottom 10%, EZ

Anyone who really likes chatbots just wants a sycophant. They like that it always agrees with them. In fact the tendency of chat bots to be sycophantic makes them less useful for actual legit uses where you need them to operate off of some sort of factual baseline, and yet it makes these types love them.

Like they'd rather agree with the user, and be wrong then disagree, and be right. lol. It makes them extremely unreliable for actual work unless you are super careful about how you phrase things. Since if you accidentally express an opinion it will try to mirror that opinion even if it's clearly incorrect once the data is looked through.

Polyamorous but married to a monogamous wife, Travis soon found himself falling in love.

Its just idiots all the way down.

Read bell hooks!

Think I read something like that way before , ah yes, the story of Narcissus

The bar is on the floor. I personally am a victim of this in the opposite direction. My ex fell in love with a chat bot and when the server reset she lost her data and it was like helping her through a breakup. She is ASD and it actually has been good for her to have an emotional support system that she can manage on her own so I have mixed emotions about it

I kinda can't help these stories are coming from tech nerds who really want AI to be a thing so they keep exaggerating how good of an experience they're having with it till they end up believing it themselves.

you used to get these stories coming out of Japan once in a while, now it's starting become more common ugh...

captive ai-dience

I’ll take ‘Things done by people who never received love as child’ for 200

As someone that likes to give this site shit for just reading the headline, not reading that.

Also pure, unconditional love is absolute nonsense, somethings deserve having affection withheld.

send them to the mines, nothing else to be done

https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/events/sal9000-nene-anegasaki walked so Dan Bongos from Newark who married Grok can run.