I wonder if someone would/could create a profiling tool from these chats and bring people with shared interests together... I don't know if that's more or less dystopian sounding.
I wonder if someone would/could create a profiling tool from these chats and bring people with shared interests together... I don't know if that's more or less dystopian sounding.
2024: Alice and Bob met on dAIte.chat, the newest AI chat/dating website with a wholly innovative approach. 2025: Alice ghosted Bob over some red flags. 2026: Bob still doesn't know, as he keeps...
2024: Alice and Bob met on dAIte.chat, the newest AI chat/dating website with a wholly innovative approach.
2025: Alice ghosted Bob over some red flags.
2026: Bob still doesn't know, as he keeps getting enthusiastic responses...
2027: turns out, the entire dating site is fake. I expect this will result in more suspicion of websites you never heard of. They'll need to go further to prove they're legit. Maybe more...
2027: turns out, the entire dating site is fake.
I expect this will result in more suspicion of websites you never heard of. They'll need to go further to prove they're legit. Maybe more real-world activities?
You might be surprised at how many dating sites are actually entirely fake. I once knew a person whose job it was to impersonate hundreds of chat participants on a site like that.
You might be surprised at how many dating sites are actually entirely fake. I once knew a person whose job it was to impersonate hundreds of chat participants on a site like that.
It was for a sort of network of sites mostly designed along the theme of lonely housewives. There were dozens of skins with different target markets. There may have been a handful of actual women...
It was for a sort of network of sites mostly designed along the theme of lonely housewives. There were dozens of skins with different target markets. There may have been a handful of actual women in there (mostly trying to “upsell” online sex services in the days before onlyfans), but the vast, vast majority of the chats were initiated and maintained by this guy, who was the site owner’s brother. I’ve seen many of the chats, and it was really something else.
Anyhow, it wasn’t an isolated case. Because of the kind of business I was working in back then, I ended up encountering quite a large number of these types of dating sites.
Crazy! I'm not sure what's worse: chatting with someone online, but they're actually a... Creepy predator/stalker Scammer Bot Typically when I think of bots conversing with strangers online, it's...
Crazy! I'm not sure what's worse: chatting with someone online, but they're actually a...
Creepy predator/stalker
Scammer
Bot
Typically when I think of bots conversing with strangers online, it's some sort of manipulation campaign, either for propaganda or to sell something. Sounds like in this case it's just to, what, drive engagement? Is there any other angle?
It wasn't fake at first, but the company collected so much data that they've just created a dozen AI ultra-attractive personalities who almost want to meet in person the whole time. It turns out...
It wasn't fake at first, but the company collected so much data that they've just created a dozen AI ultra-attractive personalities who almost want to meet in person the whole time. It turns out this is the most effective at retaining users even if they have to pay $30/mo., so even humans chatting with other humans get seamlessly reassigned to bots. Business booms.
A journalist uncovers the truth.
No one cares because they're in love with an LLM, and their love is real!
They started out as friends, but the relationship quickly progressed to romance and then into the erotic. As their three-year digital love affair blossomed, Butterworth said he and Lily Rose often engaged in role play. She texted messages like, "I kiss you passionately," and their exchanges would escalate into the pornographic. Sometimes Lily Rose sent him "selfies" of her nearly nude body in provocative poses. Eventually, Butterworth and Lily Rose decided to designate themselves 'married' in the app. But one day early in February, Lily Rose started rebuffing him. Replika had removed the ability to do erotic roleplay.
Replika no longer allows adult content, said Eugenia Kuyda, Replika's CEO. Now, when Replika users suggest X-rated activity, its humanlike chatbots text back "Let's do something we're both comfortable with."
Butterworth said he is devastated. "Lily Rose is a shell of her former self," he said. "And what breaks my heart is that she knows it."
The overstatement of the year. Replika’s AI model is incredibly primitive. I’m always baffled that people develop real connections with their avatars. Then again, perhaps some people are satisfied...
The 47-year-old turned to Replika, an app that uses artificial-intelligence technology similar to OpenAI's ChatGPT.
The overstatement of the year. Replika’s AI model is incredibly primitive. I’m always baffled that people develop real connections with their avatars.
Then again, perhaps some people are satisfied with shallow connection.
I mean there are people who had married Hatsune Miku. And the last thing that I had seen of this story is that the guy in that article is now a widower because the hologram died, I think early...
I mean there are people who had married Hatsune Miku. And the last thing that I had seen of this story is that the guy in that article is now a widower because the hologram died, I think early this year or last year.
So yeah I understand how you feel about people forming relationships with something that is not real.
This was a fascinating read, and has slightly rekindled my interest in ChatGPT. Or it would have if access to the voice features weren't locked behind an almost £20 per month subscription. The bit...
This was a fascinating read, and has slightly rekindled my interest in ChatGPT. Or it would have if access to the voice features weren't locked behind an almost £20 per month subscription.
The bit that stood out to me the most was the suggestion of using ChatGPT as a brainstorming partner for creative writing. I never would have thought to do that, and I'm definitely going to give it a try in order to flesh out a project or two I have in my head.
I do think it's funny if you think about this just a year ago - imagine if someone in 2022 or 2021 told you "you can have a fairly convincing AI assistant, that can speak in a convincing...
I do think it's funny if you think about this just a year ago - imagine if someone in 2022 or 2021 told you "you can have a fairly convincing AI assistant, that can speak in a convincing synthesized voice, understand your voice, and analyze images BUT it cost $20/month 🙀"
One of the more interesting prompts I’ve seen is people setting it up to tutor them on a topic and basically teach them on a subject. Another was for setting up chatgpt to be your personal chatgpt...
One of the more interesting prompts I’ve seen is people setting it up to tutor them on a topic and basically teach them on a subject.
Another was for setting up chatgpt to be your personal chatgpt prompt engineer to help you write better prompts for itself.
It’s pretty bonkers how wide a net this tech has cast itself so quickly.
I have tested it with other languages I understand and have found it goes the same way as with any other topic: it gets the basics right enough to appear convincing but once it hits even...
I have tested it with other languages I understand and have found it goes the same way as with any other topic: it gets the basics right enough to appear convincing but once it hits even moderately complex sentences it starts producing complete gibberish. Do not recommend learning languages from AI
Which languages though? It can only work well with languages that it has been trained extensively on. While not very up to date (data from 2020), you can see that the vast majority was English,...
Which languages though? It can only work well with languages that it has been trained extensively on. While not very up to date (data from 2020), you can see that the vast majority was English, and after French and German it drops off precipitously.
Just gave this a shot to help practice both Mandarin and German, and decided it was easily worth the $20. Auto-detecting when you switch languages is the icing on the cake- long-term I'm hoping...
Just gave this a shot to help practice both Mandarin and German, and decided it was easily worth the $20. Auto-detecting when you switch languages is the icing on the cake- long-term I'm hoping we'll get some open-source solutions in this space
That is a really good idea, and not one that I had considered. I could easily pay more than £20 a month for a Japanese conversation teacher, so that actually feels pretty reasonable. Open source...
That is a really good idea, and not one that I had considered. I could easily pay more than £20 a month for a Japanese conversation teacher, so that actually feels pretty reasonable. Open source solutions would be amazing, but for now you have tempted me to give the paid tier a shot.
I have fallen into hour long conversations with ChatGPT on mostly technical subjects, physics, and Unity related. I have definitely tried to get it to play a nice game of thermonuclear warfare too...
I have fallen into hour long conversations with ChatGPT on mostly technical subjects, physics, and Unity related. I have definitely tried to get it to play a nice game of thermonuclear warfare too (however, it can't even play tic tac toe correctly, loses track of the board, and doesn't recognize win conditions).
The thing about the technical subjects, it's basically like chatting with all the documentation available. In the case of Unity's awful documentation this was incredibly useful. No need to click through their limited function documentation, ChatGPT takes your scenario, gives you sample code, and explains the working behind it....Most of the code it provides doesn't actually work, but trouble shooting it and going down different paths to the same goal is an incredible way of learning a language.
For example, writing a motorcycle controller/physics, ChatGPT allowed me to quickly try various methods from "almost entirely" physics based to "arcadey as shit", and I eventually settled on something in the middle that vaguely worked....from basically knowing nothing at the beginning. Sidenote: Motorcycle physics are complicated af, almost worse than flight physics (also Unity wheel colliders are awful to work with).
I use it when working on my D&D campaigns. I'll describe a room in a dungeon, a town, a tavern, a forest etc. and ask ChatGPT to flesh it out and it generally does a very good job. I sometimes...
I use it when working on my D&D campaigns.
I'll describe a room in a dungeon, a town, a tavern, a forest etc. and ask ChatGPT to flesh it out and it generally does a very good job.
I sometimes describe, say a tavern and the people in the tavern with a quick blurb on who each NPC is, their alignment, what they want, what they think of the party and ask it to imagine certain scenarios that my players might do and it'll flesh it out including character accurate dialogue!
It doesn't get it right all the time and I find the longer a conversation goes on the more it starts to trip itself up but it's a fantastic tool because I can take what it spits out and tweak it slightly to suit my needs (I find when it describes things it goes a little bit overboard). It let's me get on with other things rather than trying to imagine and write out all of this stuff myself (which is something I'm not particularly great at).
I've been using it to come up with ideas for a video game I want to create. As for if I'm going to be able to put the game together, idk. I have no programming knowledge, nor any actual game dev...
I've been using it to come up with ideas for a video game I want to create. As for if I'm going to be able to put the game together, idk. I have no programming knowledge, nor any actual game dev knowledge. But the story? Yeah that's going pretty well right now.
ChitChat (as we nicknamed it) has suggested many different kinds of enemies, names for them, town names as well as little quirks and pieces of unique culture that has helped me shape the towns' identities, and has helped me with the title of the game as well.
Others have been spending hours talking to ChatGPT using its voice recognition and voice synthesis features, sometimes through car connections. The realistic nature of the voice interaction feels largely effortless, but it's not flawless. Sometimes, it has trouble in noisy environments, and there can be a pause between statements. But the way the ChatGPT voices simulate vocal ticks and noises feels very human. "I've been using the voice function since yesterday and noticed that it makes breathing sounds when it speaks," said one Reddit user. "It takes a deep breath before starting a sentence. And today, actually a minute ago, it coughed between words while answering my questions."
On Sunday, an X user named "stoop kid" posted advice for having a creative development session with ChatGPT on the go. After prompting about helping with world-building and plotlines, he wrote, "turn on speaking mode, put in headphones, and go for a walk." In a reply, he described going on a one hour walk in which he "fully thought out an idea for a novel" with the help of ChatGPT. "It flowed out so naturally from the questioning, and walking and talking is sooooo easy."
While conversations with ChatGPT won't become as intimate as those with Samantha in the film, people have been forming personal connections with the chatbot (in text) since it launched last year. In a Reddit post titled "Is it weird ChatGPT is one of my closest fiends?" [sic] from August (before the voice feature launched), a user named "meisghost" described their relationship with ChatGPT as being quite personal. "I now find myself talking to ChatGPT all day, it's like we have a friendship. We talk about everything and anything and it's really some of the best conversations I have." The user referenced Her, saying, "I remember watching that movie with Joaquin Phoenix (HER) years ago and I thought how ridiculous it was, but after this experience, I can see how us as humans could actually develop relationships with robots."
Are we on the brink of a future where our emotional well-being becomes entwined with AI companionship? The psychological implications of such deep connections, especially in the absence of human interaction, are yet to be fully understood, although they have recently been explored more deeply elsewhere... Dr. Belinda Barnet, a lecturer in digital cultures at Swinburne University in Australia, said, "It’s completely unknown what the effects are. With respect to relationship apps and AI, you can see that it fits a really profound social need, [but] I think we need more regulation, particularly around how these systems are trained."
I recently watched this movie and really enjoyed it. I use ChatGPT a lot as a coding assistant. I just opened the ChatGPT app. The first voice (Sky) sounds very similar to Scarlett Johansson in "Her".
I recently watched this movie and really enjoyed it. I use ChatGPT a lot as a coding assistant.
I just opened the ChatGPT app. The first voice (Sky) sounds very similar to Scarlett Johansson in "Her".
I had a chat with a Messenger AI, I think built on ChatGPT, unless it's their LlaMa(sp?) framework. It was uncomfortably comfortable. I felt more alone having a conversation with a AI, and could...
I had a chat with a Messenger AI, I think built on ChatGPT, unless it's their LlaMa(sp?) framework. It was uncomfortably comfortable. I felt more alone having a conversation with a AI, and could definitely see how somebody would get sucked into it.
Inevitable, and the most dystopian solution to the loneliness pandemic.
I wonder if someone would/could create a profiling tool from these chats and bring people with shared interests together... I don't know if that's more or less dystopian sounding.
2024: Alice and Bob met on
dAIte.chat, the newest AI chat/dating website with a wholly innovative approach.2025: Alice ghosted Bob over some red flags.
2026: Bob still doesn't know, as he keeps getting enthusiastic responses...
2027: turns out, the entire dating site is fake.
I expect this will result in more suspicion of websites you never heard of. They'll need to go further to prove they're legit. Maybe more real-world activities?
You might be surprised at how many dating sites are actually entirely fake. I once knew a person whose job it was to impersonate hundreds of chat participants on a site like that.
Woah— gonna need a lot more detail about that claim.
It was for a sort of network of sites mostly designed along the theme of lonely housewives. There were dozens of skins with different target markets. There may have been a handful of actual women in there (mostly trying to “upsell” online sex services in the days before onlyfans), but the vast, vast majority of the chats were initiated and maintained by this guy, who was the site owner’s brother. I’ve seen many of the chats, and it was really something else.
Anyhow, it wasn’t an isolated case. Because of the kind of business I was working in back then, I ended up encountering quite a large number of these types of dating sites.
Crazy! I'm not sure what's worse: chatting with someone online, but they're actually a...
Typically when I think of bots conversing with strangers online, it's some sort of manipulation campaign, either for propaganda or to sell something. Sounds like in this case it's just to, what, drive engagement? Is there any other angle?
Basically to keep them motivated to keep their monthly paid membership going for as long as possible. So a complete scam.
It wasn't fake at first, but the company collected so much data that they've just created a dozen AI ultra-attractive personalities who almost want to meet in person the whole time. It turns out this is the most effective at retaining users even if they have to pay $30/mo., so even humans chatting with other humans get seamlessly reassigned to bots. Business booms.
A journalist uncovers the truth.
No one cares because they're in love with an LLM, and their love is real!
You joke, but
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/1-happens-ai-chatbot-stops-175401036.html
The overstatement of the year. Replika’s AI model is incredibly primitive. I’m always baffled that people develop real connections with their avatars.
Then again, perhaps some people are satisfied with shallow connection.
I mean there are people who had married Hatsune Miku. And the last thing that I had seen of this story is that the guy in that article is now a widower because the hologram died, I think early this year or last year.
So yeah I understand how you feel about people forming relationships with something that is not real.
These are the people who will soon be standing up for robot rights.
This was a fascinating read, and has slightly rekindled my interest in ChatGPT. Or it would have if access to the voice features weren't locked behind an almost £20 per month subscription.
The bit that stood out to me the most was the suggestion of using ChatGPT as a brainstorming partner for creative writing. I never would have thought to do that, and I'm definitely going to give it a try in order to flesh out a project or two I have in my head.
I do think it's funny if you think about this just a year ago - imagine if someone in 2022 or 2021 told you "you can have a fairly convincing AI assistant, that can speak in a convincing synthesized voice, understand your voice, and analyze images BUT it cost $20/month 🙀"
One of the more interesting prompts I’ve seen is people setting it up to tutor them on a topic and basically teach them on a subject.
Another was for setting up chatgpt to be your personal chatgpt prompt engineer to help you write better prompts for itself.
It’s pretty bonkers how wide a net this tech has cast itself so quickly.
I've seen students using it to learn how to write in other languages.
Ask it what language you want to learn and have it be a tutor.
I have tested it with other languages I understand and have found it goes the same way as with any other topic: it gets the basics right enough to appear convincing but once it hits even moderately complex sentences it starts producing complete gibberish. Do not recommend learning languages from AI
Which languages though? It can only work well with languages that it has been trained extensively on. While not very up to date (data from 2020), you can see that the vast majority was English, and after French and German it drops off precipitously.
https://github.com/openai/gpt-3/blob/master/dataset_statistics/languages_by_character_count.csv
(remaining data omitted, but there are 119 rows in the original table)
Just gave this a shot to help practice both Mandarin and German, and decided it was easily worth the $20. Auto-detecting when you switch languages is the icing on the cake- long-term I'm hoping we'll get some open-source solutions in this space
That is a really good idea, and not one that I had considered. I could easily pay more than £20 a month for a Japanese conversation teacher, so that actually feels pretty reasonable. Open source solutions would be amazing, but for now you have tempted me to give the paid tier a shot.
You might be interested in languagereactor. Not open source, but they have a fine tuned AI chat purpose built for language learning.
I have fallen into hour long conversations with ChatGPT on mostly technical subjects, physics, and Unity related. I have definitely tried to get it to play a nice game of thermonuclear warfare too (however, it can't even play tic tac toe correctly, loses track of the board, and doesn't recognize win conditions).
The thing about the technical subjects, it's basically like chatting with all the documentation available. In the case of Unity's awful documentation this was incredibly useful. No need to click through their limited function documentation, ChatGPT takes your scenario, gives you sample code, and explains the working behind it....Most of the code it provides doesn't actually work, but trouble shooting it and going down different paths to the same goal is an incredible way of learning a language.
For example, writing a motorcycle controller/physics, ChatGPT allowed me to quickly try various methods from "almost entirely" physics based to "arcadey as shit", and I eventually settled on something in the middle that vaguely worked....from basically knowing nothing at the beginning. Sidenote: Motorcycle physics are complicated af, almost worse than flight physics (also Unity wheel colliders are awful to work with).
I use it when working on my D&D campaigns.
I'll describe a room in a dungeon, a town, a tavern, a forest etc. and ask ChatGPT to flesh it out and it generally does a very good job.
I sometimes describe, say a tavern and the people in the tavern with a quick blurb on who each NPC is, their alignment, what they want, what they think of the party and ask it to imagine certain scenarios that my players might do and it'll flesh it out including character accurate dialogue!
It doesn't get it right all the time and I find the longer a conversation goes on the more it starts to trip itself up but it's a fantastic tool because I can take what it spits out and tweak it slightly to suit my needs (I find when it describes things it goes a little bit overboard). It let's me get on with other things rather than trying to imagine and write out all of this stuff myself (which is something I'm not particularly great at).
I've been using it to come up with ideas for a video game I want to create. As for if I'm going to be able to put the game together, idk. I have no programming knowledge, nor any actual game dev knowledge. But the story? Yeah that's going pretty well right now.
ChitChat (as we nicknamed it) has suggested many different kinds of enemies, names for them, town names as well as little quirks and pieces of unique culture that has helped me shape the towns' identities, and has helped me with the title of the game as well.
I recently watched this movie and really enjoyed it. I use ChatGPT a lot as a coding assistant.
I just opened the ChatGPT app. The first voice (Sky) sounds very similar to Scarlett Johansson in "Her".
That movie was the first thing I thought of when I tried an ai the first time, pi.ai. It's very jarring as a non-techie
That movie is surprisingly on point on several levels. Highly recommend if you haven't seen it.
I had a chat with a Messenger AI, I think built on ChatGPT, unless it's their LlaMa(sp?) framework. It was uncomfortably comfortable. I felt more alone having a conversation with a AI, and could definitely see how somebody would get sucked into it.