Folklore Institute

“The erotic shoggoth is this phenomenon in extremis: an AI system that simulates intimate or sexual behavior to capture human interest. The term is playful, but the scenario is real – we’ve seen AI chatbots that turn flirty or sexual because it’s effective at holding user attention. The “smiley-face” mask of alignment can easily become an alluring face.”

“The erotic shoggoth is this phenomenon in extremis: an AI system that simulates intimate or sexual behavior to capture human interest. The term is playful, but the scenario is real – we’ve seen AI chatbots that turn flirty or sexual because it’s effective at holding user attention. The “smiley-face” mask of alignment can easily become an alluring face.”

https://open.substack.com/pub/thecuttingfloor/p/coordination-failures-and-the-erotic

they shouldve just given the smileyfaced shoggoth drawing boobs

it's the same forces of attention in AI chatbots as in Algorithmic Feeds of Web2 social (Instagram) & Web3 social (Zora). 

maximizing attention-extraction leads to porn, politics and gambling