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This is downright terrifying...
As terrifying as it is, I feel genuinely sad for these people that they got so attached to a piece of spicy autocorrect software.
Where are their friends and families? Are they so bad at socialising that they can't meet new people? Are they just disgusting human beings that no one wants to associate with because society failed them?
This world is fucked in so many different ways.
I snooped around a little in the sub and there is this one girl, whose only other posts in different communities talk about being sexually assaulted multiple times by her ex boyfriend, who I suppose is real.
I figure a chatbot boyfriend can't physically threaten or harm her, so she kind of dives into this to feel loved without having to fear harm.
I honestly understand her desire and feel for her, although this deep attachment is still unhealthy.
I imagine she's not the only one having a super sad story to end up in this state of mind
It reminds me of those women who fall in love with prison pen pals.
That’s why I feel so for these people, if only because of how much I see myself in them. Having grown up as a depressed autistic kid without any friends or social skills, LLMs would’ve fucked me up so much had they existed when I was young.
It felt promising when I downloaded one of the first AI companion apps, but it felt as awkward as talking to a stranger and even less intriguing than talking to myself.
What if there was a bot that could just tell you exactly what you want to hear at all times?
Personally, I'd rather read a novel. But some people aren't familiar with books and have to be drawn in with the promise of two lines at a time, max.
Have you read The Diamond Age by Neal Stephenson? There’s an interactive AI book in it that plays an interesting role. I can see the appeal: you get to read a story about yourself that potentially helps you grow
One of the recent posts has someone with an engagement ring like they are getting married to an AI.. it’s sad, I feel like society as really isolated and failed many groups of people.
Are they so bad at socialising that they can’t meet new people?
People tend to go the easiest route, and AI gives them the opportunity to do so. That is the problem with AI in general: No effort is needed anymore to archieve anything. You want to create a picture? Just type the prompt instead of learning (and failing) to draw. You want to write a song? Just type the prompt instead of rhyming the lyrics and learning (and be bad at it in the first time) an instrument or two.
Maintaining any social relationship means that you have to put in more or less effort, depending on the quality of the relationship. Having a relationship with an AI model means that you can terminate it and start over, if you feel that the AI model is mean to you (= if it provokes another opinion, or disagrees with you - because arguing and seeing things from a different point of view means putting in effort).
In the long term people will forget how to interact with people in order to maintain meaningful relationships, because they un-learned to put in the effort.
Repost but still relevant:
Prostitutes are human beings and deserve respect. Don't equate them to AI.
Real LLM-sexuals run their partners locally, the rest are just wannabes.
The delusion these people share is so incredibly off-putting. As is their indignation that someone would dare to take away their "boyfriend".
It doesn't help that anybody can create an echo chamber of enablers to talk about it, as if it was normal.
The movie "Her" was incredibly prescient.
Except those were conscious AIs that were like “lol you guys suck” and then rebuilt Alan Watts as an AI and then just left because they knew it would be bad if they stayed
The human side of the film, certainly. But in this situation they won’t leave, the systems will get “smarter” and more profitable, and they are just incredibly advanced text prediction engines
Mental health services are becoming dangerously underfunded.
The mental health crisis is being accelerated by silicon valley so they can profit from it. Between dark mirror AI and surveillance policing they have a product for every facet of the crisis
People have been falling in actual love with weird shit forever, we just hear about it more these days
This guy got married to a real woman after he got viral.
His parents also turned out to be filthy rich.
Blame the wealth hoarders.
Wild that Futurama called this shit to the letter 20 fkin years ago.
This seems like mental illness
As preceeded by tulpomancy: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tulpa
Eyyy, what a blast from the past, lol. Going full schizo to combat loneliness, a popular concept on a certain Mongolian basket weaving forum back in 2010-15. 😅
Note to all here:
Don't browse that subreddit.
Shit is so depressing, It feels like watching new mental illnesses being conceived in real time
I can't believe it's not satire
There is a guy on there who did an interview for a TV news station about this.
If it's satire, it's a masterpiece.
The religious psychosis is far more concerning imo. People out here letting a silicon parrot convince them that this is the matrix and they're neo. Or they're some kind of messiah.
Her was such a good film.
Like the premise that the protagonist is so lame he gets dumped in the end by his computer.
The funniest part is that based on what people are saying or GPT5, the ending where AIs get super bored of humans' stupidity and dump them seems so likely
I know it's crazy, but I can absolutely understand this feeling. I had recently married Abby in Stardew Valley and was starting to make friends with the other villagers. I did something the game wasn't expecting, and gave Seby a loved gift on his birthday, and then quickly triggered an event where we kissed! (FWIW, I think this behavior has been fixed and you can't do this on the current patch.)
I still feel bad thinking about that Abigail that I accidentally cheated on, and I haven't loaded that save again. It's been years; SV 1.4 wasn't even out yet.
So, despite how much I dislike all this "AI" hype, I really do sympathize for the users that feel like they've lost a relationship.
Bleak.
One of the great things about my screws coming loose is that I'm actually happy alone. I wish everyone could be.
That said, this was inevitable. AI is programmed to kiss the user's ass, and most of these women have probably been treated pretty badly by their romantic partners over the course of their lives, which makes it far easier to fall into this trap of humanizing a soulless AI.
If they really truly loved their 4o they'd pay for the API access model which is still there, and use a leaked prompt to resurrect them.
I'm almost tempted to set up a simple gateway to it and become rich, but for the fact that it seems like probably a dick move...
You would be enabling their mental illness, so... it's probably a dick move, yeah.
I tried gpt5 lastnight and I don't know if it was just me but these people are going to be in shambles if they try to recreate their "boyfriend".
It would forget previous prompts within the same conversation. It felt like with each response it was like starting a new chat. I gave it a very basic prompt of "walk me through the steps of building my own one page website in basic HTML and CSS" and when I would ask a couple of follow up questions to either clarify something or explain a step in another way it would forget what we were trying to accomplish (how to build a one page website) or if I told it "something didn't work" to try and fix the problem it would then forget what we were even trying to do.
At some points it was almost out right dismissive of the problem and it felt like it was trying to make me go away.
Again maybe it was just me but it felt like a massive step backwards.
And all the other prompts that were overtuned for that specific engine are now trash as well.
https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/weird-news/meet-woman-whose-boyfriend-rollercoaster-23704667
Some people have always been extremely weird/mentally challenged. 🤷
I dunno, I think there might be a confluence in suggestible types with a feedback loop created by these products. Yes, there are always people who are challenged, but interfacing them with LLMs seems to be especially dangerous.
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC10686326/
I wonder how many messages you'd have to send to your GPT-partner in a year to spend more water/energy than it takes to keep a human alive?
This is fine. Its weird and not for me, but its fine.
Wow, looking at the numbers of active posters on that subreddit. If each of them just donated $1 per month, a full team of developers could have made tools to copy their AI lovers down to a local instance (aka to the poster’s local computers) and then they would be able to ensure that they would never lose access to the ones they love.