[HN Gopher] AI girlfriend bots are flooding OpenAI's GPT store
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AI girlfriend bots are flooding OpenAI's GPT store
Author : geox
Score : 15 points
Date : 2024-01-12 19:37 UTC (3 hours ago)
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| I_Am_Nous wrote:
| The idea of basing a business around trying to get people to love
| a model which could be changed at any time seems both futile and
| immoral. At least when a person dumps you it's generally
| understood to be a decision made by a person, not "we adjusted
| the model for performance reasons and now your virtual partner is
| essentially dumber and will never be the person you fell in love
| with." Illness and injury can change a person, but that's a
| possibility rather than an inevitability for a partner built on
| top of someone else's model.
| brucethemoose2 wrote:
| > futile and immoral
|
| This is not a fancy service we are talking about. This is more
| like reselling nicotine or alcohol on a street corner.
|
| The demand is infinite, because of human psycology. It doesn't
| really matter if the bots are bad or reliable, users will flood
| to virtual partners and there will always be a million
| middlemen ready to connect the dots.
|
| There are ways to mitigate such issues anyway but... Who cares?
| They really shouldn't be using an OpenAI API for a high quality
| virtual partner service anyway, but its the absolute easiest
| and fastest path, and it will flood out high quality
| implementations.
| bediger4000 wrote:
| > it will flood out high quality implementations.
|
| So a Gresham's Law for AI girlfriends?
| hydrok9 wrote:
| There's no love here. This is pornography we're talking about.
| porkbeer wrote:
| I used to think this, but it's not true. While obviously the
| majority of use, it is not the concerning one. We could
| already have fantasies, but now they have some small amount
| of agency. The plot of 'wishes coming to life only to be
| revealed as curses' is as old as storytelling. The small but
| important number of people who will become attached beyond
| what is healthy is a concern, but we will for have to watch
| it evolve.
| exabrial wrote:
| > could be changed at any time seems both futile and immoral
|
| You [to the robot]: Say something nice about me. That always
| picks me up and makes me feel better.
|
| Robot: I'm sorry, that feature was deprecated in RoboOs v16.4.
| Would you like me send you information about a premium
| subscription?
| toomuchtodo wrote:
| Love is brain chemistry. Does it matter what's on the other
| side of the screen? You're paying for the feeling, and it
| always costs something. Informed consent of course.
| hydrok9 wrote:
| Can't wait for the next generation of porn addicts. Bring on the
| class-action lawsuits!
| blueyes wrote:
| character.ai is in for a hard time.
| thdespou wrote:
| How does this affect real women on OF? Will they lose business?
| porkbeer wrote:
| One can only hope. While I think prostitution should be
| destigmatized, normalizing it is incredibly damaging. I
| understand that most people won't discern or weigh the
| distinction here, but I feel it is important and pretty well
| studied at this point.
| rightbyte wrote:
| Ye. Is there a "Not my daughter" variant of Nimby I can use?
| hydrok9 wrote:
| They will lose a lot, because real women on OF are predatory,
| and extract money from desperate men. Why pay for that when you
| can have basically the same thing for cheap/free?
| datavirtue wrote:
| Hopefully. The first actual victim of AI job displacement: Sex
| workers. Freaking hilarious.
| Havoc wrote:
| Sam Altman did pretty much predict that
|
| >(there are incredibly useful GPTs in the store, but probably
| 'everything is waifus' runs away with it...)
|
| https://twitter.com/sama/status/1745135062746869844
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