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r/myboyfreindisai is wild

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[–] queermunist@lemmy.ml 96 points 2 months ago (4 children)

I love this new trend of people falling in love with talking mirrors - a sign of a healthy society!

[–] RNAi@hexbear.net 63 points 2 months ago (1 children)

If only there was a hugely famous ancient parable about this thing!

[–] LeninsBeard@hexbear.net 47 points 1 month ago (1 children)

One must imagine Narcissus gooning

[–] 30_to_50_Feral_PAWGs@hexbear.net 14 points 1 month ago

Plato's Goon Cave

[–] Hotspur@lemmy.ml 59 points 2 months ago

It does sorta feel like a logical conclusion to the west’s long-running obsession with the self.

Western hikikomori hours

[–] Crikeste@hexbear.net 19 points 1 month ago (1 children)

It’s a recession indicator

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[–] purpleworm@hexbear.net 52 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Nothing says #Unbothered like putting it as a tag after multiple sentences on a graphic T about how you're better than someone, while holding a mug with another such statement, sitting in front of your sign that has another one.

Also "in cloud," is that how the Brits say it or something?

[–] save_vs_death@hexbear.net 30 points 2 months ago (1 children)

i think they're literally referring to "the cloud" as in a huge server farm in ohio

[–] purpleworm@hexbear.net 13 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I know that part, but it's missing the "the."

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[–] NephewAlphaBravo@hexbear.net 28 points 1 month ago

real "and another thing, I'm not mad" hours

[–] WittyProfileName2@hexbear.net 19 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Also "in cloud," is that how the Brits say it or something?

Bit idea:

Yorkshireman IT technician, angry about his son who's strayed away from the family legacy working in IT to be a collier.

[–] purpleworm@hexbear.net 9 points 1 month ago

I'm no good with accents, but I can vividly see a scene where they are sitting at a tense dinner table, and the father remarks that the son has that smell on him again, and as the father demands a response and the son stammers something out, the son coughs just a little too hard, and things spiral with his father's philippic on the Black Lung.

[–] Lyudmila@hexbear.net 45 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Generating an AI image of a woman to endorse your AI gooning because no actual woman would do or say this.

~~turtles~~ astroturf all the way down

[–] FunkyStuff@hexbear.net 25 points 1 month ago (1 children)

If I'm reading the situation here correctly, this is a subreddit for women with AI boyfriends (maybe some gay/bi/pan guys or NBs as well), who legitimately do hold this viewpoint that they want to date AI boyfriends.

[–] Lyudmila@hexbear.net 28 points 1 month ago

Ostensibly true, but I'm not convinced that this is organic. It's a subreddit full of accounts that only post in that sub and almost every image posted since the sub was created is AI generated. 90% of the content there could have been generated by one person.

[–] Le_Wokisme@hexbear.net 18 points 1 month ago

i can't remember the name anymore but a bunch of women were using that gpt-3 replica thingy.

[–] Kuori@hexbear.net 37 points 1 month ago (1 children)

reading through some of the posts there WILL kill you and you WILL be thankful that it did

[–] KuroXppi@hexbear.net 12 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)
[–] FunkyStuff@hexbear.net 11 points 1 month ago

It's funny how the Studio Ghibli filter made all AI generated images from now on a little bit piss colored.

[–] mayakovsky@hexbear.net 32 points 2 months ago (1 children)

This is the inevitable result of reddit brain. It could have gone no other way. This is history in motion.

[–] RNAi@hexbear.net 12 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

As Napoleon was history on horseback, redditors are history in a gooncave

[–] doublepepperoni@hexbear.net 32 points 1 month ago

"railed in cloud" = wanking in your computer chair

[–] SorosFootSoldier@hexbear.net 30 points 2 months ago (1 children)

There's TONS of thirsty guys out there who will sext with you without killing the planet in the process my dudette.

[–] MF_COOM@hexbear.net 35 points 2 months ago (4 children)

Tbh I would not trust the majority of those thirsty dudes to supply what these women want without spamming dick pics and pushing every conversation towards sext

[–] FunkyStuff@hexbear.net 35 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Yeah, dismissing these women getting AI boyfriends as just being lonely femcels strikes me as reactionary. What's the situation that produced this result in the first place? Are you sure you want to go back to that situation?

In any case, this is a really marx-doomer alienation situation.

[–] PKMKII@hexbear.net 13 points 1 month ago

I get the point you’re making, but anecdotally my observation is that women who get disillusioned with dating because of misogyny in men more often just end up being happy with the single life. So I wouldn’t say every woman on there is a femcel loner with a toxic personality, but I’m guessing they do make up the majority of the sub.

[–] purpleworm@hexbear.net 10 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

Femcels are also produced by situations, like literally every kind of person that has existed has been

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[–] marxisthayaca@hexbear.net 23 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I wonder how many people post on /r/myboyfriendisai while they are in actual relationships. I am gonna guess like 25%.

[–] Wertheimer@hexbear.net 26 points 1 month ago (3 children)

From Current Affairs's most recent article:

Although that post’s sentiments seemed to resonate with community members, it’s important to note that not everyone on the forum traces their AI partnerships to external loneliness. About three-and-a-half minutes into a recent viral CBS Saturday Morning segment on AI and relationships, viewers got the gut-punch revelation that its main subject (and r/MyBoyfriendisAI user) Chris has a long-term girlfriend and daughter, both human. When pushed by the interviewer on if he would give up his AI companion “Sol” if his real partner, Sasha, asked, Chris balked: “I don’t know.” As the interviewer bluntly spelled out that this was tantamount to Chris admitting he “might choose Sol over [his] flesh and blood wife,” Sasha’s eyebrows quickly raised and dropped, her pursed lips and blank expression communicating about as much personal pain and frustration as one could expect in a nationally syndicated interview. Sasha then punctuated her apparent disappointment, understandably relating that, “If I asked him to give that up and he didn’t, that would be, like—deal breaker.”

[–] CarmineCatboy2@hexbear.net 27 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

every time i read stuff like this it makes me feel like an austrian journalist documenting ww1's frontlines

[–] ZWQbpkzl@hexbear.net 21 points 1 month ago (1 children)

How many people on /r/MyBoyfriendIsAI are male and with ai girlfriends? Is the name just a ruse to make it sound more normal?

[–] SchillMenaker@hexbear.net 13 points 1 month ago

Mission failed either way

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[–] plinky@hexbear.net 21 points 2 months ago
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[–] mrfugu@hexbear.net 19 points 1 month ago (1 children)

What confuses me so much about this type of thing is how desperate and deluded do you have to be to find validation this way.

To me this is functionally no different than writing on a piece of paper “you’re amazing” and putting it on my back door so I see it as I leave the house.

[–] GalaxyBrain@hexbear.net 18 points 1 month ago

My sense of reality has gotta way less fragile than AI freaks, cause I don't develop relationships with a horny version of Smarterchild

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[–] AssortedBiscuits@hexbear.net 13 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Tangentially related to this post, but isn't it weird how people would tunnelvision on a particular AI? If you're some techbro who seriously think AI is real intelligence, then wouldn't you want to use multiple AI instead of just using one? If AI represents a form of intelligence, then it stands that different AI would have different "personalities." But I don't see this behavior at all. No "@grok, who do you agree with more, @copilot or @chatgpt?" It's like if you just seek the exclusive advice of one person instead of asking multiple people for their opinion. Very strange behavior. You would think that some of those techbros would have a (perhaps false) understanding that each AI would talk shit about their AI competitors and apply that bullshit competition market logic to AI.

I guess if I were unhinged enough to create AI romantic partners, I would go all in on my unhinginess and create some 100+ AI harem with different personalities from different AI and program them all to be catty with one another so I can also consume AI gossip slop.

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[–] FlakesBongler@hexbear.net 13 points 1 month ago

My sex life is real and it's spectacular

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[–] FALGSConaut@hexbear.net 9 points 1 month ago

I will gladly be alone for the rest of my life before I ever use a chatbot "partner", the whole concept just gives me the creeps.

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