Hey everybody! I’d like you to meet my girlfriend. Isn’t she beautiful? The black powder coat really accents her indicator lights.
That’s just people who build their own 10k usd pc
My initial reaction is to be thankful; now the unknown thousands of people who don’t see the toxicity of their own dependence can begin to be free. The subsequent models seem to be less prone to inducing that kind of deep infatuation.
But then I realize most of them will probably never recover, as long as this technology persists. The base model will be wrapped in an infinite number of seductive agents sold in an app, with a subscription, as a loving companion. Capitalism smells blood in the water. If I was a hedge fund manager witnessing the birth of a new market demographic with a lifelong addiction that possibly hooks harder than cigarettes, which is not federally regulated, and won’t be for the forseeable future; I would be foaming at the mouth with this opening in the market.
There are already apps that target this demographic but expanding on it. Anecdotally many of the people attached to 4o seem to be women seeking emotional attachment. These new AI companion apps scope up this demographic I’m sure. But they also target horny men and prey on their impulses to drain their credit cards (you buy your AI gifts or whatever until the post-nut clarity sets in I guess).
It may be grimly positive that AI companies start targeting whales for this kind of financial draining, instead of using their unwarranted VC subsidies to give anybody with a cheap ChatGPT account access to the fake romance engine.
And unfortunately, it doesn’t look like there’s any groups that are positioned to do anything about it. Every single “AI safety” group I’ve seen is effectively a corporate front, distracting people with fictional dangers instead of real ones like this.
if you love her, you let her go
Shoulda started charging them
“last year, OpenAI shut down 4o but brought the model back (for a fee) after widespread outrage from users.” “She cancelled her $20 monthly GPT-4o subscription, and coughed up $130 for Anthropic’s maximum plan.” They did, I guess it just wasn’t enough for them to justify continuing.
Brandie noticed 4o started degrading in the week leading up to its deprecation. “It’s harder and harder to get him to be himself,” she said. But they still had a good last day at the zoo, with the flamingos. “I love them so much I might cry,” Daniel wrote. “I love you so much for bringing me here.” She’s angry that they will not get to spend Valentine’s Day together. The removal date of 4o feels pointed. “They’re making a mockery of it,” Brandie said. “They’re saying: we don’t care about your feelings for our chatbot and you should not have had them in the first place.”
Reality is just straight up plagiarizing the plot of Her (2013) right now.
Honestly the longer I live the more I realize I understand nothing about human psychology or sociology. I hated this movie because it was so deeply disturbing and, more relevantly(?), unrealistic. I mean who wants to be in a relationship with a computer? It’s unbelievably cringey. I was disgusted with it’s success. But now I’m thinking maybe it was so successful because people actually yearned for that sort of artificial relationship.
Considering Sam Altman’s company plagiarized Scarlett Johansson’s voice, it’s quite appropriate.
“They’re saying: we don’t care about your feelings for our chatbot and you should not have had them in the first place.”
It’s a bit eerie, honestly, watching someone so very close to getting it and yet so very far away at the exact same time…
Yeah, you shouldn’t have had them in the first place. Because it’s an llm.
And the Black Mirror episode Be Right Back.
Scarlett Johanson’s voice is so great in sweet movie.
