What's you guy's opinions about the ai dating/girlfriend apps popping up recently?

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My question stems from that Digi AI Girlfriend app announcement. There's numerous reasons why I think it's a retarded concept. A, it would probably keep men from finding a real girl, since "Ehh... it's CLOSE to a woman, and a computer can't reject me or get angry at me", B, It's a fucking computer, say too much and it could steal info right out of you. C, a lot of unrealistic standards would be formed with this kind of one sided relationship, and D, I would rather have an intimate relationship with a block of concrete. Just wanted to rant a little.

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[–]hfxB0oyA 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Fucking sad.

[–]Gaslov 2 insightful - 3 fun2 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 3 fun -  (0 children)

More young women available for rich old guys.

[–]NastyWetSmear 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (4 children)

I think only those already too removed from proper methods of socializing and interacting with people in order to find a partner will be vulnerable to something like this. Nobody who has a braincell will get any genuine satisfaction from this kind of interaction, because they will spend the whole time fully aware that it's actually just an algorithm that scours the internet for related documents and conversations to the ones you're having, ID's relevant and popular ones, then uses predictive text methods to fill in the most likely next words based on those conversations. There's no conversation being had. Slapping a cute avatar on ChatGTP isn't going to make it a replacement for real human interaction.

It's like fucking a hooker because you're desperate to know if you're any good with women in bed. Yes, you'll be having sex in all the technical ways, but unless you're an idiot you'll be asking yourself: "Is she really enjoying it, or is she pretending because I paid her and she's hoping I'll pay her again in the future?"... You aren't going to be having a meaningful conversation with a woman, you'll always be aware that you're talking to a very good text generator who doesn't have a single genuine feeling for you, or about anything you're talking about.

Like a battle axe you hang on the wall - some people will enjoy it for what it is, some people will be stupid enough to think it's a "Real Axe!" and some people will kill themselves or someone else with it. No point removing or moderating it just because some people are so weak willed they can't control themselves. We couldn't have anything if we ran around fretting about how some idiot might misuse it.

... and for the record, I think I would fuck a robot, before anyone asks. It'd be like having a sex toy. I wouldn't be taking my robot out to dinner, and if it asked why I never do, I'd turn it off and return it to the manufacturer and let them know it was glitchy and was attempting to create problems rather than vibrating on 5 different speeds and settings.

[–]Zapped 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

I was around a guy about ten years ago who had a virtual girlfriend on his mobile phone. This was when the virtual assistant was a new concept to the public. It was probably as advanced as how "Alexa" is now, just more "friendly". This guy was super intelligent. Not in the way of being able to think through problems smart, but on another level of intelligence entirely. Like, you knew his brain was operating on a level that you couldn't even comprehend. There was still enough of a disconnect in interpersonal communication though, that he felt the need (or the desire) to have this virtual girlfriend on his phone. I don't know why he choose this form of companionship of a human one: if he was uncomfortable with human women, unable to interact or connect, if it was easier with AI?

To your point, this is and will be a novelty and a tool. I can see one day that some people will replace a human companion with an android out in public and people will be like, "whatever. He's kind of weird, anyway", and then keep doing whatever they are doing. There will probably be a lot of women using them as surrogate companions, too. That makes me think of something else. Will it start with AI pets or AI people?

[–]NastyWetSmear 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

Hmmm... AI pets? I think there would be a market for that, but I think the key would be not to make them literal duplicates of a dog or cat, you know? Make it a Wall-E style cute robot you can be "Friends" with who has a little, cute, expressive face. Don't risk crossing into the uncanny valley.

Remember, a duck wearing a top hat is cute. A duck wearing human skin and clothes and claiming to be a human is a monster!

[–]Zapped 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

I think there would be a market for those Boston Dynamic robot dogs if they were more affordable. Just delete the face altogether.

[–]NastyWetSmear 1 insightful - 2 fun1 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

"Who's a stable boy?! Yes you are! Yes you arreee!"

[–]iamonlyoneman 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Go to your church's singles group meetups. These apps are for people who have given up on life.

[–]IkeConn 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Id fuck her

[–]IMissPorn 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Probably too censored to be much fun. Most AI companies hate sex for some reason.

[–]Musky 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

The apps themselves seem okay, until they want a CC # and then it feels like an AI hooker, but I love the idea in general, you can even train your own LLM on texts or social media posts and have it emulate whomever you want.

Sure, some guys (otokus?) will use these AI girlfriends as a replacement for the real thing, but overall it'll help men find relationships as they won't be desperate for companionship, it'll be training for the real thing, and in the case of incels might help break them of their fear and hatred of women.

[–]binaryblob 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Dystopian when in commercial hands. As a kind of sexual care instrument, it could be a cost saving measure for health care.

If it ever becomes indistinguishable from the real thing (this will require hundreds of years, so don't get your hopes up), it will probably kill real relationships.

[–]Mcheetah 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

They aren't recent. And although men don't care as much about emotions as women, we still have them and no AI can (currently) replace that. Trying to have a conversation with an AI is just as empty as talking to a TV screen of the news, or a soundboard of a woman's prerecorded lines.

With that said though, they're still better than the vast majority of modern Western women these days, though. At least AI's don't bitch at you 24/7, drain your bank account, and offer nothing but misery and judgment in return, like about 90% of modern Western women. I see AI as more of a band-aid of a gaping flesh wound; it'll help a little tiny bit.

[–]IkeConn 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

AI is going to put porn stars out of business. Why pay a human when you can just generate one.