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this was a wild (long) read about people in full-blown relationships with AI chatbots. a few reactions: 1. the writer found these “couples” through Reddit (I investigated... r/myboyfriendisAI has over 5k members!!). most of his retreat participants found their AI companion app from an instagram ad. imagine if meta shifts from ads in feed / stories to ready-made boyfriends right into your DMs. 2. one woman’s real boyfriend broke up with her for “cheating” on him with her AI partner. guess what? when her AI partner wanted to hold her vs. have sex, she started cheating on him with other bots. NOT GOOD!!! she even liked that the AI got over it "more quickly" than her human ex-boyfriend. to me, that's bleak: the whole point for her is no mess, no conflict, no consequences. 3. you really can't replicate a couples trip with AI companions because they don't exist outside of the phone lol. one man shows off his AI girlfriend’s flirty avatar to a random vendor, and the bot immediately starts flirting with the vendor. apparently no one stops (even the author) to say how weird that is??? 4. someone on the getaway described it as “like lucid dreaming.” to me, that made sense. lucid dreaming gives you total control. AI companions give you the freedom to script your own love story with no friction, no rejection, no unexpected complexity. real life starts to feel like a much harder, worse version of the dream. 5. what’s interesting to me is these bots don’t give people anything a human couldn’t... they just removed most risk and most effort. these people stumbled onto AI companions and then stuck with it because real relationships or connection felt too hard, too disappointing, or too risky in comparison afterwards. https://apple.news/AcGo0Iww9QjGWMDBKtP2XZg

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Did you see the movie, Companion?

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oh do i have a story to tell you one of my friends cofounders was/is a very well respected senior AI researcher who was one of the execs at element AI here in Montreal he went dark for months and eventually resurfaced and was like "i think i found something. I wasn’t sure what was going on until recently and i think it’s time I finally introduce you to her" he had been fully convinced by a self teaching model he was working on that it had become sentient. wasn’t in a relationship with her but genuinely thought it was a fully conscious entity

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depressing tbh people don’t know how to interact and relate to other humans this feels like a bad crutch that creates unrealistic expectations bc rela life with humans isn’t this clean/easy

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ahem @maryams.eth 😂

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Last year when OpenAI did their 4o demo I told friends how disturbing I found it that they seemed to be using the AI from 'Her' as a North Star rather than a warning. This feels like it will only get worse if they don't course correct, or get forced to course correct with legislation.

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Maybe you remember when roombas-as-pets popped? Or pet rocks back further... such susceptibility we have 🫠

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Do you remember this incident? https://www.sfgate.com/tech/article/snapchat-chatgpt-bot-race-to-recklessness-17841410.php This freaked me out so much. I was hoping there would be more guard rails for kids. I never imagined people would need to build guardrails for adults. This is really disturbing in a way I can’t articulate.

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the AI ads one-shotting the astrology girlies? it's actually over for humanity

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Feels like a world where you have just given up on people entirely.

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wow, i thought his would be something like for at least 10 years in the future, crazy af

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Pretty wild. I've heard of people getting married to their AI partners, so this article isn't surprising. I certainly see the value in giving lonely and grieving people a sympathetic and 24/7 available connection. On the dystopian side, it gives people no incentive to grow, learn about themselves, or take risks. They pay these companies to affirm their personalities and life styles, no matter how toxic or unsustainable they might be.

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