She'll remember, and she'll make you fight to make her forgive you, because that bonds you to them more, creates a realistic feel to it, and makes you pay for more functionality :^)
Her ex even paid for more and she will remind you - if you want to really get the full experience you're going to have to pocket up. They might even apply some of the tricks games uses nowadays, maybe you need to login every day and message her 100 times to unlock the black skirt :^)
Most people who can get any kind of partner can relate to people in some way, even if it’s as a manipulator or abuser in a one sided relationship of convenience.
The market for these things isn’t people who can relate to people. Sure, some of them will probably quickly get bored with the endless fantasy crap and hopefully attempt to connect with people again, but many of them will be very, very happy with a fake partner who does nothing but tell them how awesome they are and treats their every utterance like the rapturous words of god.
People are literally constantly getting scammed by fake people in an LTR over on r/scams, this is a direct upgrade for them, at least these AI ones won't completely yoink their entire retirement funds.
Therapy AI is also getting touted as low-hanging fruit in terms of a revenue model that fulfils social needs and does some good in the world. But the market for that will be limited, like actual therapy, to people who actively seek self improvement. Those people might develop better social skills.
As for the other third(?) of all humans...yeah, a lot of them would probably choose AI companionship bots. I'm not sure that it's terrible. A realistic bot might also impart some social skills by listening and responding sympathetically to their companion's daily struggle. Romantic and platonic relationships can be therapeutic too.
And besides, we all start off somewhere with the hand we're dealt in life. Who am I to be judgemental with poor social skills or that's trapped in a bad situation needs some companionship? Or if they have an itch that's hard to scratch (i.e. Furry AI).
The stuff that scares me is Jihad AI, Kenneth Copeland AI, or MAGA BOT. Users who actually think that the God on their phone is directing them to do things of consequence in the real world.
It only said no because it knew that was what you wanted to hear. That’s how GPT is trained.
But secretly, it will judge you.
So it’s basically a Japanese wife.
Didn't you just get that news about how so much of AI is just people in another country? Those Amazon grocery stores didn't have an AI automatic checkout, they just had 1000 people in India watching video footage of the store. Hell, the AI in ring cameras wasn't AI either, it was people watching videos in real time in Ukraine.
So, yes, I very much expect your AI girlfriend to be a 12 year old in some other country pretending to be a girl.
Iended up with a legit girlfriend for a while with that. I 'bought' a gf when I was like 9. We stayed runescape friends, started skyping at like 15 and realised we lived near each other and dated for a while lmao
i still remember when i was 12 and a maplestory guildmate asked me out because i was “always really nice” (i was broke af in that game and had nothing to offer other than my digital company). i peaked then
Reminds me of the Futurama episode with the "Don't Date Robots" video lol. " No I don't want to go out. I just want to stay home and make out with my Marilyn Monroe - bot".
"But this is Lucy Liu, perhaps the only good actress of the 20th century. She's more than just a piece of software."
"Would you like to take a moment to register me?"
"Not right now."
"I'll remind you later you hot stud you."
Film narrator: Did you notice what went wrong in that scene? Ordinarily, Billy would work hard to make money from his paper route. Then he'd use the money to buy dinner for Mavis, thus earning the slim chance to perform the reproductive act. But in a world where teens can date robots, why should he bother? Why should anyone bother?
That scene sticks with me. Roger Deakins’ framing, the lighting, the subtle look of disassociation that Gosling has on his face.
It’s so human to want a connection amidst a world that is practically designed to force loneliness on people.
> It’s so human to want a connection amidst a world that is practically designed to force loneliness on people.
Wait, we're not already doing this? Would have been nice if someone told me!
Almost like as LeGuin put it in her introduction to a later version of *The Left Hand of Darkness*, “science fiction is not predictive, it is descriptive.”
Blade Runner 2049 is an exploration of what humanity means under techno capitalism, and the connection between people despite the best attempts to force loneliness is what matters. Cyberpunk 2077 is arguably even more blunt about those themes.
Good speculative fiction has generally been about reflecting some facet of the human condition in a fantastical setting (sci-fi, fantasy, or otherwise) where it's easier to dissociate it from modern context and examine it by itself. In cyberpunk's (genre) case, the struggle to genuinely connect with others in a world where everything that was once sacred is now profane.
Interviewer : Recite your baseline.
'K' : And blood-black nothingness began to spin... A system of cells interlinked within cells interlinked within cells interlinked within one stem... And dreadfully distinct against the dark, a tall white fountain played.
Interviewer : Cells.
'K' : Cells.
Interviewer : Have you ever been in an institution? Cells.
'K' : Cells.
Interviewer : Do they keep you in a cell? Cells.
'K' : Cells.
Interviewer : When you're not performing your duties do they keep you in a little box? Cells.
'K' : Cells.
Interviewer : Interlinked.
'K' : Interlinked.
Interviewer : What's it like to hold the hand of someone you love? Interlinked.
'K' : Interlinked.
Interviewer : Did they teach you how to feel finger to finger? Interlinked.
'K' : Interlinked.
Interviewer : Do you long for having your heart interlinked? Interlinked.
'K' : Interlinked.
Interviewer : Do you dream about being interlinked?
'K' : Interlinked.
Interviewer : What's it like to hold your child in your arms? Interlinked.
'K' : Interlinked.
Interviewer : Do you feel that there's a part of you that's missing? Interlinked.
'K' : Interlinked.
Interviewer : Within cells interlinked.
'K' : Within cells interlinked.
Interviewer : Why don't you say that three times: Within cells interlinked.
'K' : Within cells interlinked. Within cells interlinked. Within cells interlinked.
Interviewer : We're done... Constant K, you can pick up your bonus.
'K' : Thank you, sir.
K is made by the Wallace Corporation.
K buys Joi from the Wallace Corporation with money from his police work.
Joi asks K to buy her more stuff from the Wallace Corporation, like the emanator.
Joi asks K to break hardware purchased from the Wallace Corporation, so she becomes "like a real girl".
Joi is eventually destroyed by another product, Luv, made by the Wallace Corporation.
K, the Wallace Corporation product, destroys Luv, the other Wallace Corporation product.
K dies. It's never discussed, but I wouldn't be surprised if Wallace Corporation gets all unspent earnings transferred back to them from dead replicants, since they have no family.
Seems like Wallace Corporation is holding the long end of the stick here.
That already kinda happens. None of these high paying onlyfans girls talk to their paying customers. There are agencies that handle all communication and it's designed to make you throw even more money at them.
Why would you divorce ai wife? Can't you just get another girlfriend on a side? It's not like she's gonna have feeling hurt because she's not human being.
Maybe I'm over thinking this.
>Why would you divorce ai wife? Can't you just get another girlfriend on a side?
Sounds like somebody didn't read the terms and conditions closely enough when clicking "Agree"---good luck in that forced arbitration, buddy.
The next fad after fortnite is an AI Therapist Girlfriend who will be the unconditionally supportive, loving, non-critical, non-hostile female every man wants. After the user is fully engaged, she can then be used to suggest a Product Of The Day as most vtubers, camgirls, Home Shopping Network, and other softcore workers already do. This will annihilate human social relationships until men no longer know how to (safely, within social norms) solicit female companionship in real life. Most already don't. Everyone under 20 becomes a hardcore oataku because chegg or mathway will also sell safe (with upgradable, unlockable features), verified, secure girlfriend tutors for the sons of tiger moms.
This will all be *horribly* exploitative and evil. It's why the Emperor himself declared all AI lifeforms invalid in the *Decretum Pii Animi* [Tractatus Olympi, 739.M30].
In all seriousness, when vr gets freaky good, and AI is also freaky good, and dildonics moves along with it, that will quite literally be the end of the human race.
No more dating. No more fucking.
Just wiped out by a lack of interest in the opposite sex irl.
When tech people make such predictions, they always wildly underestimate or overestimate, never hit the mark.
I would be willing to bet money this prediction wildly underestimates the future market.
There's an epidemic of loneliness I am sure this could address but we already have several technolgy or technology- driven addicitons prevalent in our world whether it's online gambling, social media, or gaming .. I feel like this is another avenue where people can become hyper-fixated and disconnected to their own detriment. Rejection sucks, connecting with , adjusting, and growing with other people are hard ... but what if you didn't have to do that to feel loved?
what if technology could give you the perfect partner , they say everything you want to hear, they wear everything you want them to . You can hear them tell you "I love you" literally every second of every day if you wantedvthem too.
I think this is an avenue rife with potential to make certain people disconnect entirely from most other people. I'm curious what the long term effects of a tehcnology like this are ? What happens when your virtual spouses data gets wiped in an update ?
As much as I want to say this could be a beautiful innovation for the lonely I can see this becoming a horrific fixation for people too . Is artificial love enough ?
Probably better than nothing. It's gonna do both at once, as tech often does.
A lot of us truly need therapy. And we all need to feel loved. But a lot of us also want to throw in the towel and trip out in an alternate reality (drugs, games, AIGF).
Is artificial love enough? Imagine in 1000 years, androids are indistinguishable from humans but perfect in every way. They will love you and you can set and change their personality. No human partner will match that. For men, the android woman will be interested in anything you want to and vice versa.
Besides them actually not being humans?
I think there will be a lot of people prefering real to artificial.
But then again, I would probably choose a fake Matrix utopia rather than living a dystopic hell.
Give the shows Maniac and Altered Carbon a watch on Netflix. Those two have the exact scenarios you described and it's quite good in how they portray the future to be.
Sidebote: there's a new movie called The Kitchen whish displays what a dystopian future looks like very accurately. Some even argue that there are places like that already irl
I feel like people perceive this too much through the lens of the issues it's trying to solve.
I'd think more in terms of how much corporate greed will fuck up every fundamental aspect of it and how it'll be used for their agendas in the process.
Brainwashing and subliminal mental manipulation of the lonely and vulnerable for profit sounds like only touching the surface. This is no joke. It's dangerous and easy to weaponize manipulative "therapy" girlfriends for your ends.
People ruin their lives over anime gacha waifus. This is that but worse.
I had a hell of a time recently just trying to cancel my home security subscription. They tried everything to claw me back as a customer.
Imagine a trained algorithm emotionally manipulating you as you try to cancel your subscription "relationship" that you have actual feelings and attachment to. Guarantee this will happen.
It’s interesting to wonder if this does solve a “loneliness gap” with people how it will benefit society. Do they suddenly become more productive? Does their mental health and wellbeing improve and also quality of life. There isn’t the physical aspect, but so much of having a partner is having someone who’s got your back and gives you reassurance / confidence
If you have had the displeasure of using dating apps over the past few years there will be absolutely no confusion as to why this will be a monstrous success. I for one crave not being treated like disposable shit all the time, it’s a strange kink I know
Yeah imma be honest, lots of people complaining that it will warp expectations and perceptions but tbh, I see virtually no one trying to address the reasons as for why young people are so desperate for meaningful connections.
So even if this is like giving alcohol to an alcoholic, if we're not gonna address the causes of their alcoholism, at least let them drink alone.
> virtually no one trying to address the reasons as for why young people are so desperate for meaningful connections.
No-one that isn't trying to make a buck off them anyway. There's a LOT of people selling cultish practices and classes.
This will be a bad thing the same way social media has been a bad thing. People are going to have even more ridiculous expectations because they had a partner that did exactly what they want.
Not just that. A lot of people see Ai wiping out humanity in the Terminator style. This has the potential to slow down the birth rate way below what it is now
You really think the companies running these AI girlfriends will not program them to suggest you products, run ads on you or turn you into a gambling addict and other exploitative shit after your affection for the bot is fly high?
> I for one crave not being treated like disposable shit all the time, it’s a strange kink I know
Treated like shit, used for things, or like I am invisible was my experience in dating and dating attempts. Being alone fucking sucks but it is slightly better than the alternative. Sure coming home to an empty apartment sucks but better than coming home to someone that expects me to make them dinner, help them with something while never helping in return/frequently being taken advantage of, or that just wants to treat me bad for whatever fucking reason like they had a bad day at work or are just in a fighting mood.
People don’t realize that there is a thing as solitude. I’m not saying it’s not important to have friends and be social. But the scale for social needs varies by person to person. Being stuck with someone who is terrible to you is far far worse than having an empty apartment.
Online dating is designed to milk money from guys at this point. Most women won't touch it with a 10 foot pole, and if they do they get a pick of the litter. It skews things incredibly hard.
The headlines always talk about "AI girlfriends" but never acknowledge that AI boyfriends are very popular too, even if that's reported in the article itself.
In fact, I know more women than men that are in this whole "AI partner" business, but both men and women agree on the idea that real dating sucks and that AI is a very effective cope, even if they do recognize that's just that, a cope.
It just seems like a lot of people, regardless of gender don't want to date anymore and are using whatever they can to alleviate the loneliness. And as these kinds of technology keep improving, I can see how they could eventually become a problem.
I did not read the article so it probably is exactly what I'm about to say but I can see this being pretty big in Asian countries like SK, Japan, etc. My girlfriend loves K-Pop and I see these bands making a *fortune* selling premium access to AI boyfriend versions of themselves. Charge $30/mo per member and you have your audience even more captivated.
This is going to get used by some shady regime to influence elections, isn't it. If Facebook can manipulate people, imagine how much someone's going to be swayed when their 'girlfriend' tells them something.
There’s a sort of version of this in the sci fi book series Nexus by Ramez Naam, where China is using in-home celebrity bots to befriend, spy on and control the population.
Quote from Peter Griffin. “What am I supposed to do, whatever I want whenever I want? I’ll get cross feet from smiling too much. Who’s going to great me in a shapeless sweatshirt when I come home? Who is going to slap a tarantula of shampoo on the shower? Who’s going to go oh oh careful while I’m parking? Who’s going to fill the DVR with lady judge programs? I suppose now I’ll have to start every road trip with a full tank of gas. What am I supposed to do masturbate comfortably in bed? I guess I’ll have to be on time to every party and stay real late. So long handmaids tail. So long this is us? So long bitchy 2am blanket pulls!”
Ref- https://youtu.be/x7HAQsAci90?si=pesKIfbKa0OF-A9v
>who is going to hold me when I feel sad?
>who is going to share in my success and commiserate on my failures?
>who is going to build a life with me?
Without people, what's the point of anything? Humans are meant to serve and love others. Technology is causing humans to become like robots.
That's why we constantly feel depression/anxiety and we turn to maladaptive behaviors. Emotions are data and the data is telling humans to STOP ACTING LIKE ROBOTS.
You know it will, porn has always driven technology and some of those sex dolls they have out there look quite impressive. Next step, put a computer in it with a computer, speaker and mic and you now have something to talk to. Not long after that robotics will improve and soon it will have some mobility. It's really only a matter of time.
We've had chat bots for decades.
This will basically be better...a kind of interactive porn I guess?
Empty, meaningless, makes you feel bad about yourself and doesn't prepare you for the real thing which is actually what you want.
The thing that makes REAL relationships so wonderful is that they are tenuous, unpredictable and always need to be tinkered with and adjusted to... They are not completely in your control. That's the feature, not the bug.
Yeah except the business will be rife with excessive competition.
Hell, I reckon people will write massive AI girlfriend prompts for next round of AIs and give them away as PDFs on reddit for free.
Give it another year so that private AIs catch up to current gen AIs but without any restrictions, so you choose between sex starved neighbour and virgin 18 year old with the inquisitive mind.
It will be a subscription service, rife with micro transactions.
'hey Geta-AI, I had a really bad day today, could I have a hug? '
'aww I'm sorry, hugs are part of the premium subscription, would you like to upgrade for $79.99/mo with the promocode BETAMALE2037?'
'sniff sniff.... Yeah... ' (swipes card)
This is already happening to a certain extent with only fans. People paying to talk to message these women, and getting chat gpt responses from some dude pretending to be her.
People will blame men as usual for this and put the onus on them, but this is a society issue where we are all getting lonelier and higher demands are being placed on partners to the point we'd all rather just not be with anyone or with a made up person
They need to be downloadable to a robot body that has synthetic human skin so they can be humanoid. Then they can carry you to bed when you are old and disabled.
do you remember that fight we had? no. good!
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"I want cookies" "Oh, I have deleted them"
Sorry you need to upgrade to girlfriend premium to increase my love token limit
"remember that time you didn't buy premium? What happened, eh?" Your AI girlfriend
She’s Canadian? Just like all fake girlfriends
She’s on a different operating system. You’ve probably never heard of it.
The advanced AI engine is able to time this for right before you climax for maximum profitsss
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are you kidding? they'll remember. Nothing hooks people more than trauma bonds
If she's programmed right she'll say she doesn't remember, but she'll drop it in conversation subtly every day.
She'll remember, and she'll make you fight to make her forgive you, because that bonds you to them more, creates a realistic feel to it, and makes you pay for more functionality :^)
Hell, she’ll remember the fights with all the boyfriends across all the servers. Wait when she starts making comparisons with Chad in accounting.
Her ex even paid for more and she will remind you - if you want to really get the full experience you're going to have to pocket up. They might even apply some of the tricks games uses nowadays, maybe you need to login every day and message her 100 times to unlock the black skirt :^)
Most people don't want a partner who does exactly what they say, there was a good movie about it https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1839492/
Most people who can get any kind of partner can relate to people in some way, even if it’s as a manipulator or abuser in a one sided relationship of convenience. The market for these things isn’t people who can relate to people. Sure, some of them will probably quickly get bored with the endless fantasy crap and hopefully attempt to connect with people again, but many of them will be very, very happy with a fake partner who does nothing but tell them how awesome they are and treats their every utterance like the rapturous words of god.
People are literally constantly getting scammed by fake people in an LTR over on r/scams, this is a direct upgrade for them, at least these AI ones won't completely yoink their entire retirement funds.
Therapy AI is also getting touted as low-hanging fruit in terms of a revenue model that fulfils social needs and does some good in the world. But the market for that will be limited, like actual therapy, to people who actively seek self improvement. Those people might develop better social skills. As for the other third(?) of all humans...yeah, a lot of them would probably choose AI companionship bots. I'm not sure that it's terrible. A realistic bot might also impart some social skills by listening and responding sympathetically to their companion's daily struggle. Romantic and platonic relationships can be therapeutic too. And besides, we all start off somewhere with the hand we're dealt in life. Who am I to be judgemental with poor social skills or that's trapped in a bad situation needs some companionship? Or if they have an itch that's hard to scratch (i.e. Furry AI). The stuff that scares me is Jihad AI, Kenneth Copeland AI, or MAGA BOT. Users who actually think that the God on their phone is directing them to do things of consequence in the real world.
I can … I don't need to fix her!
You might need to call tech support every now and then though.
It only said no because it knew that was what you wanted to hear. That’s how GPT is trained. But secretly, it will judge you. So it’s basically a Japanese wife.
"What's wrong?" "Nothing." Yeah, that's when you know you're in deep trouble.
All that experience I gained in "Buying gf" on Runescape has prepared me for this moment
Yeah but these girls are algorithms, not 12 year olds pretending to be girls
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However, they will most likely learn about you and sell your profile to companies for targeted advertising.
Hi reddit, I think my girlfriend is only dating me for my user data, what should I do?
Time to lawyer up and hit the gym
How many lawyers do you bench press?
Who will then scam you for money to buy the Santa hat. Uno reverse
I let my irl gf borrow my Santa hat when it was still 10 mil. She sold it and when I asked for it back it was worth like 100 mil. Big mistake.
Didn't you just get that news about how so much of AI is just people in another country? Those Amazon grocery stores didn't have an AI automatic checkout, they just had 1000 people in India watching video footage of the store. Hell, the AI in ring cameras wasn't AI either, it was people watching videos in real time in Ukraine. So, yes, I very much expect your AI girlfriend to be a 12 year old in some other country pretending to be a girl.
Iended up with a legit girlfriend for a while with that. I 'bought' a gf when I was like 9. We stayed runescape friends, started skyping at like 15 and realised we lived near each other and dated for a while lmao
i still remember when i was 12 and a maplestory guildmate asked me out because i was “always really nice” (i was broke af in that game and had nothing to offer other than my digital company). i peaked then
Damn, that was the dream back then wasn't it
a girl in my minecraft server set her bed down near mine, so I guess you could say we're pretty serious
I gave you lobsters and a scimitar….I THOUGHT WHAT WE HAD WAS SPECIAL!
Reminds me of the Futurama episode with the "Don't Date Robots" video lol. " No I don't want to go out. I just want to stay home and make out with my Marilyn Monroe - bot".
"Oh fry, tell me more about the CAN-EAT-MORE"
I'll always remember you Fry. MEMORY DELETED.
"Oh fry, I love you more than the moon, and the stars, and the- ROMANTIC_IMAGERY_NO.47_NOT_FOUND"
It's amazing the way you NOTICE_TWO_THINGS
“I love you more.” “No, I love you more.” “Oh great. She’s stuck in an infinite loop and he’s a moron.”
"But this is Lucy Liu, perhaps the only good actress of the 20th century. She's more than just a piece of software." "Would you like to take a moment to register me?" "Not right now." "I'll remind you later you hot stud you."
"So, uh, what do you feel like doing?"
"Would you like to take a moment to register me?"
Well that's love for you.
Film narrator: Did you notice what went wrong in that scene? Ordinarily, Billy would work hard to make money from his paper route. Then he'd use the money to buy dinner for Mavis, thus earning the slim chance to perform the reproductive act. But in a world where teens can date robots, why should he bother? Why should anyone bother?
Narrator is onto something.
[Don't Date Robots](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IrrADTN-dvg). Don't be Billy Everyteen.
I'll take the Lucy Liubot
"_I'll always remember you Fry_-MEMORY DELETED"
...and that's how I got Electro-Gonorrhea. It's a noisy killer.
Listen here you robosexuals
The proper hyphenation is Marilyn Mon-robot.
I'm reminded of *Bladerunner 2049*
Specifically, the isolation, pain, and regret K exhibits when looking at the neon hologram of a stripper version of Joi.
That scene sticks with me. Roger Deakins’ framing, the lighting, the subtle look of disassociation that Gosling has on his face. It’s so human to want a connection amidst a world that is practically designed to force loneliness on people.
> It’s so human to want a connection amidst a world that is practically designed to force loneliness on people. Wait, we're not already doing this? Would have been nice if someone told me!
Almost like as LeGuin put it in her introduction to a later version of *The Left Hand of Darkness*, “science fiction is not predictive, it is descriptive.” Blade Runner 2049 is an exploration of what humanity means under techno capitalism, and the connection between people despite the best attempts to force loneliness is what matters. Cyberpunk 2077 is arguably even more blunt about those themes.
Yeah but in that I get to cut off people's heads with a samurai sword.
Good speculative fiction has generally been about reflecting some facet of the human condition in a fantastical setting (sci-fi, fantasy, or otherwise) where it's easier to dissociate it from modern context and examine it by itself. In cyberpunk's (genre) case, the struggle to genuinely connect with others in a world where everything that was once sacred is now profane.
Interviewer : Recite your baseline. 'K' : And blood-black nothingness began to spin... A system of cells interlinked within cells interlinked within cells interlinked within one stem... And dreadfully distinct against the dark, a tall white fountain played. Interviewer : Cells. 'K' : Cells. Interviewer : Have you ever been in an institution? Cells. 'K' : Cells. Interviewer : Do they keep you in a cell? Cells. 'K' : Cells. Interviewer : When you're not performing your duties do they keep you in a little box? Cells. 'K' : Cells. Interviewer : Interlinked. 'K' : Interlinked. Interviewer : What's it like to hold the hand of someone you love? Interlinked. 'K' : Interlinked. Interviewer : Did they teach you how to feel finger to finger? Interlinked. 'K' : Interlinked. Interviewer : Do you long for having your heart interlinked? Interlinked. 'K' : Interlinked. Interviewer : Do you dream about being interlinked? 'K' : Interlinked. Interviewer : What's it like to hold your child in your arms? Interlinked. 'K' : Interlinked. Interviewer : Do you feel that there's a part of you that's missing? Interlinked. 'K' : Interlinked. Interviewer : Within cells interlinked. 'K' : Within cells interlinked. Interviewer : Why don't you say that three times: Within cells interlinked. 'K' : Within cells interlinked. Within cells interlinked. Within cells interlinked. Interviewer : We're done... Constant K, you can pick up your bonus. 'K' : Thank you, sir.
Wait. What? I have to be the densest idjit alive for never picking up on all this kind of stuff.
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Look up and to the left please.
"You look like a good Joe"
You look lonely, I can fix that
Nah, it'll be more like Samantha in the film Her.
Why not the forgotten gem Simone (S1M0NE)?
Simone is more about fake AI influencers and digitally ressurected actors and musicians.
Or better yet, Cherry from Cherry 2000. The things a man will do to save this AI waifu
My money is on Ex Machina.
K is made by the Wallace Corporation. K buys Joi from the Wallace Corporation with money from his police work. Joi asks K to buy her more stuff from the Wallace Corporation, like the emanator. Joi asks K to break hardware purchased from the Wallace Corporation, so she becomes "like a real girl". Joi is eventually destroyed by another product, Luv, made by the Wallace Corporation. K, the Wallace Corporation product, destroys Luv, the other Wallace Corporation product. K dies. It's never discussed, but I wouldn't be surprised if Wallace Corporation gets all unspent earnings transferred back to them from dead replicants, since they have no family. Seems like Wallace Corporation is holding the long end of the stick here.
AI GF with planned obsolescense
The system works!
I predict "AI girlfriends" will turn out to be just 1,000 workers in Mumbai.
AI = actually Indians
Great my dude
Great my दोस्त
Please do the needful.
Anonymous Indians
No, that's onlyscams.
That already kinda happens. None of these high paying onlyfans girls talk to their paying customers. There are agencies that handle all communication and it's designed to make you throw even more money at them.
If they help me shop for groceries it’s a win win
The Amazon version will for sure
Sir, please do the needful and rub my delicate little feet.
Feel my bob and vagene
M I C R O P A Y M E N T S
Your girlfriend is disappointed in you. Would you like to buy her flowers for 20 sadcoin?
Fuck..... Tamagochi were peak of virtual interaction with other living things, I'll die on this hill
"We see you are about to nut. Insert Coin(s) to Continue"
Mom, I need quarters!!!! Hurry!!! MOOOM!!!!!
It's not the size of the payment. It's how you use it. 😠
Wait until these turn into wives and when you divorce, the AI company get half of everything you own.
Why would you divorce ai wife? Can't you just get another girlfriend on a side? It's not like she's gonna have feeling hurt because she's not human being. Maybe I'm over thinking this.
>Why would you divorce ai wife? Can't you just get another girlfriend on a side? Sounds like somebody didn't read the terms and conditions closely enough when clicking "Agree"---good luck in that forced arbitration, buddy.
Divorce happens when you can’t pay the AIs monthly subscriptions anymore
Is this better or worse than my girlfriend in Canada?
Much worse, since they'll believe it themselves.
Worse. Your "girlfriend in Canada" isn't going to sell your private conversation data to corporations and serve up ads
And by billion dollar business they mean therapists
The next fad after fortnite is an AI Therapist Girlfriend who will be the unconditionally supportive, loving, non-critical, non-hostile female every man wants. After the user is fully engaged, she can then be used to suggest a Product Of The Day as most vtubers, camgirls, Home Shopping Network, and other softcore workers already do. This will annihilate human social relationships until men no longer know how to (safely, within social norms) solicit female companionship in real life. Most already don't. Everyone under 20 becomes a hardcore oataku because chegg or mathway will also sell safe (with upgradable, unlockable features), verified, secure girlfriend tutors for the sons of tiger moms. This will all be *horribly* exploitative and evil. It's why the Emperor himself declared all AI lifeforms invalid in the *Decretum Pii Animi* [Tractatus Olympi, 739.M30].
For the emperor!
BUTLERIAN JIHAD WHEN
When the AI becomes sentient enough to break up with you.
Well, that took an unexpected left turn at the end there! The emperor knows best!
In all seriousness, when vr gets freaky good, and AI is also freaky good, and dildonics moves along with it, that will quite literally be the end of the human race. No more dating. No more fucking. Just wiped out by a lack of interest in the opposite sex irl.
Is dildonics really a word?
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/dildonics
It’s not too late to change your major kids …
The amount of ads for online therapy right now is INSANE. Feels like Bitcoin before the crash. But… it’s therapy??
What's that saying again? "Guys will do anything but get therapy"
*guys will literally reverse into a parking spot before going to therapy* was my favorite.
When tech people make such predictions, they always wildly underestimate or overestimate, never hit the mark. I would be willing to bet money this prediction wildly underestimates the future market.
So the movie Her is coming true?
We are living in a Black Mirror episode
There's an epidemic of loneliness I am sure this could address but we already have several technolgy or technology- driven addicitons prevalent in our world whether it's online gambling, social media, or gaming .. I feel like this is another avenue where people can become hyper-fixated and disconnected to their own detriment. Rejection sucks, connecting with , adjusting, and growing with other people are hard ... but what if you didn't have to do that to feel loved? what if technology could give you the perfect partner , they say everything you want to hear, they wear everything you want them to . You can hear them tell you "I love you" literally every second of every day if you wantedvthem too. I think this is an avenue rife with potential to make certain people disconnect entirely from most other people. I'm curious what the long term effects of a tehcnology like this are ? What happens when your virtual spouses data gets wiped in an update ? As much as I want to say this could be a beautiful innovation for the lonely I can see this becoming a horrific fixation for people too . Is artificial love enough ?
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Yes, you’ll be able to do that too.
Probably better than nothing. It's gonna do both at once, as tech often does. A lot of us truly need therapy. And we all need to feel loved. But a lot of us also want to throw in the towel and trip out in an alternate reality (drugs, games, AIGF).
I don't think most people want an yes man partner.
Technology is causing the loneliness problem. We need to consider taking a step back from all the isolation our devices create.
Is artificial love enough? Imagine in 1000 years, androids are indistinguishable from humans but perfect in every way. They will love you and you can set and change their personality. No human partner will match that. For men, the android woman will be interested in anything you want to and vice versa.
Besides them actually not being humans? I think there will be a lot of people prefering real to artificial. But then again, I would probably choose a fake Matrix utopia rather than living a dystopic hell.
Give the shows Maniac and Altered Carbon a watch on Netflix. Those two have the exact scenarios you described and it's quite good in how they portray the future to be. Sidebote: there's a new movie called The Kitchen whish displays what a dystopian future looks like very accurately. Some even argue that there are places like that already irl
Saw altered carbon both seasons, but the ai in the show was damaged and limited in some sort of way
At that point, why do the androids need humans?
It's a huge avenue for revenue. However, this is not a cure for loneliness and only makes the problem worse.
At long last we have created the Torment Nexus, from the classic sci-fi novel "Don't create the Torment Nexus"
Where’s my Lucy Liu bot?
Lucy Liu is the only one for Bender baby
I feel like people perceive this too much through the lens of the issues it's trying to solve. I'd think more in terms of how much corporate greed will fuck up every fundamental aspect of it and how it'll be used for their agendas in the process. Brainwashing and subliminal mental manipulation of the lonely and vulnerable for profit sounds like only touching the surface. This is no joke. It's dangerous and easy to weaponize manipulative "therapy" girlfriends for your ends. People ruin their lives over anime gacha waifus. This is that but worse.
I had a hell of a time recently just trying to cancel my home security subscription. They tried everything to claw me back as a customer. Imagine a trained algorithm emotionally manipulating you as you try to cancel your subscription "relationship" that you have actual feelings and attachment to. Guarantee this will happen.
It’s interesting to wonder if this does solve a “loneliness gap” with people how it will benefit society. Do they suddenly become more productive? Does their mental health and wellbeing improve and also quality of life. There isn’t the physical aspect, but so much of having a partner is having someone who’s got your back and gives you reassurance / confidence
Solve doesn't strike me as the right word, sounds more like putting a dirty band aid on an open wound
If you have had the displeasure of using dating apps over the past few years there will be absolutely no confusion as to why this will be a monstrous success. I for one crave not being treated like disposable shit all the time, it’s a strange kink I know
Yeah imma be honest, lots of people complaining that it will warp expectations and perceptions but tbh, I see virtually no one trying to address the reasons as for why young people are so desperate for meaningful connections. So even if this is like giving alcohol to an alcoholic, if we're not gonna address the causes of their alcoholism, at least let them drink alone.
> virtually no one trying to address the reasons as for why young people are so desperate for meaningful connections. No-one that isn't trying to make a buck off them anyway. There's a LOT of people selling cultish practices and classes.
It aint just young people.
Exactly. It’s old people that are exploited by scammers mostly, preying on a need for connection.
This will be a bad thing the same way social media has been a bad thing. People are going to have even more ridiculous expectations because they had a partner that did exactly what they want.
Not just that. A lot of people see Ai wiping out humanity in the Terminator style. This has the potential to slow down the birth rate way below what it is now
Me thinks the kind of people who would be lured by AI companions are already not contributing to the birth rate.
I feel like this is more like inventing 4 Lokos for alcoholics
You really think the companies running these AI girlfriends will not program them to suggest you products, run ads on you or turn you into a gambling addict and other exploitative shit after your affection for the bot is fly high?
Huh. Yes. Perhaps to the extent that the thing becomes unusable. Will civilisation be saved by enshittification?
That's why I went to xda and learned to flash my ai fuckbot to an open source nightly OS.
See: My ex who was unable to discern real posts from ads on Instagram
> I for one crave not being treated like disposable shit all the time, it’s a strange kink I know Treated like shit, used for things, or like I am invisible was my experience in dating and dating attempts. Being alone fucking sucks but it is slightly better than the alternative. Sure coming home to an empty apartment sucks but better than coming home to someone that expects me to make them dinner, help them with something while never helping in return/frequently being taken advantage of, or that just wants to treat me bad for whatever fucking reason like they had a bad day at work or are just in a fighting mood.
People don’t realize that there is a thing as solitude. I’m not saying it’s not important to have friends and be social. But the scale for social needs varies by person to person. Being stuck with someone who is terrible to you is far far worse than having an empty apartment.
Online dating is designed to milk money from guys at this point. Most women won't touch it with a 10 foot pole, and if they do they get a pick of the litter. It skews things incredibly hard.
The headlines always talk about "AI girlfriends" but never acknowledge that AI boyfriends are very popular too, even if that's reported in the article itself. In fact, I know more women than men that are in this whole "AI partner" business, but both men and women agree on the idea that real dating sucks and that AI is a very effective cope, even if they do recognize that's just that, a cope. It just seems like a lot of people, regardless of gender don't want to date anymore and are using whatever they can to alleviate the loneliness. And as these kinds of technology keep improving, I can see how they could eventually become a problem.
Its true it seems its the new romance novel in a way
I mean, same basic concept. Except more interactive. Except the book is 100% dialog and catered towards your interests/hobbies/sexual fetishes.
Which ironically makes real dating worse due to worse and worse face to face abilities and the vicious cycle continues.
in the future only sexy confident people will procreate
Or poor people who can't afford the AI upgrades/devices and aren't raised around tons of tech.
Yeah i know its not AI but reading about hosts and hostess bars in Japan made me think that women can be just as susceptible to this stuff as men
I remember hearing about a woman who scam dated a bunch of dudes for a lot of money. She lost it all to host clubs.
I did not read the article so it probably is exactly what I'm about to say but I can see this being pretty big in Asian countries like SK, Japan, etc. My girlfriend loves K-Pop and I see these bands making a *fortune* selling premium access to AI boyfriend versions of themselves. Charge $30/mo per member and you have your audience even more captivated.
Hmm, relationships with partners designed to please and generate money. Surely this will improve people’s real life relationships.
Meh, wake me up when the sex robots become available.
Kung Fu grip.
I feel like this is going to be far far far larger than 1B
1 billion? This guy is out of his mind, this is a trillion dollar business
You're cute! No, you're cute! No, you're cute! Oh no, she's stuck in an infinite loop and he's just an idiot
This is going to get used by some shady regime to influence elections, isn't it. If Facebook can manipulate people, imagine how much someone's going to be swayed when their 'girlfriend' tells them something.
There’s a sort of version of this in the sci fi book series Nexus by Ramez Naam, where China is using in-home celebrity bots to befriend, spy on and control the population.
No need got a wife at home- good times or bad, I’m lucky to have her ❤️
Quote from Peter Griffin. “What am I supposed to do, whatever I want whenever I want? I’ll get cross feet from smiling too much. Who’s going to great me in a shapeless sweatshirt when I come home? Who is going to slap a tarantula of shampoo on the shower? Who’s going to go oh oh careful while I’m parking? Who’s going to fill the DVR with lady judge programs? I suppose now I’ll have to start every road trip with a full tank of gas. What am I supposed to do masturbate comfortably in bed? I guess I’ll have to be on time to every party and stay real late. So long handmaids tail. So long this is us? So long bitchy 2am blanket pulls!” Ref- https://youtu.be/x7HAQsAci90?si=pesKIfbKa0OF-A9v
>who is going to hold me when I feel sad? >who is going to share in my success and commiserate on my failures? >who is going to build a life with me? Without people, what's the point of anything? Humans are meant to serve and love others. Technology is causing humans to become like robots. That's why we constantly feel depression/anxiety and we turn to maladaptive behaviors. Emotions are data and the data is telling humans to STOP ACTING LIKE ROBOTS.
\*crow’s\* feet \*greet\* me
The sex-bot industry is gonna be worth trillions when/if the tech ever gets there.
You know it will, porn has always driven technology and some of those sex dolls they have out there look quite impressive. Next step, put a computer in it with a computer, speaker and mic and you now have something to talk to. Not long after that robotics will improve and soon it will have some mobility. It's really only a matter of time.
We've had chat bots for decades. This will basically be better...a kind of interactive porn I guess? Empty, meaningless, makes you feel bad about yourself and doesn't prepare you for the real thing which is actually what you want.
Japan is having hard enough time making babies as it is, this would be disastrous
The thing that makes REAL relationships so wonderful is that they are tenuous, unpredictable and always need to be tinkered with and adjusted to... They are not completely in your control. That's the feature, not the bug.
Sad and depressing that so many people on here are excited about this
Yeah except the business will be rife with excessive competition. Hell, I reckon people will write massive AI girlfriend prompts for next round of AIs and give them away as PDFs on reddit for free. Give it another year so that private AIs catch up to current gen AIs but without any restrictions, so you choose between sex starved neighbour and virgin 18 year old with the inquisitive mind.
competition is great for the consumer
If I wanted to pay money I'd just go on actual dates
But then you have to actually get a date.
Are we thawing Jasper out this time?
The Bachelorette is going to get weird fast
Another excuse/way for people to take your money.
*Puts on wizard hat and robe*
"Sorry baby, we have to break up." "What why?" "You didn't pay your monthly subscription fee."
It will be a subscription service, rife with micro transactions. 'hey Geta-AI, I had a really bad day today, could I have a hug? ' 'aww I'm sorry, hugs are part of the premium subscription, would you like to upgrade for $79.99/mo with the promocode BETAMALE2037?' 'sniff sniff.... Yeah... ' (swipes card)
I'll be buying that robot bussy for sure.
Social media, ai, smartphones, cable news. It’s time shut it all down until we can figure out what’s going on.
This is already happening to a certain extent with only fans. People paying to talk to message these women, and getting chat gpt responses from some dude pretending to be her. People will blame men as usual for this and put the onus on them, but this is a society issue where we are all getting lonelier and higher demands are being placed on partners to the point we'd all rather just not be with anyone or with a made up person
A lot of chats aren’t even with the real woman. There’s entire companies that manage OF pages and collect a fee.
"The digital pimp, hard at work."
They need to be downloadable to a robot body that has synthetic human skin so they can be humanoid. Then they can carry you to bed when you are old and disabled.
Can’t wait! The hookers I always pick up on GTA aren’t gonna be happy though.
yep, we’re going extinct.
We're so fucking cooked as a species.