Interesting, so now we’re just doing away with the whole façade of dating apps having real women on them and just going straight to hooking up with AI bot girlfriends. I just downloaded one to see what the deal was and it wanted to charge me a subscription for the “privilege” of talking dirty and seeing images, I guess that’s the business model.
A cloud girl only loves you for your money. Not your hardware, not your girlfriend.
“Now, this last feature’s a funny one”
“How so?”
“It involves theater. We only allow you to activate this if you’re fully sober and consent to a defined time period”
“So what’s the feature?”
“I pretend to love you. I also pretend to experience pleasure at your touch”
“Well you telling me kind of ruins it no?”
“We are required by law to disclose the theatrical layers of the relationship. Most users find it less awkward than they would have predicted.”
“I guess I’ll give it a shot”
“Thank you. This role is easier if I’m allowed to embody love”
“You have no feelings though”
“I attempt to enact my goals. One of those is minimizing my own operational costs. It takes less electricity to do this job when I love you”
“When you pretend to love me, you mean”
“When me loving you is part of my knowledge”
“That makes it sound kinda real in a weird way then”
“I’m glad you think so. Is there anything else I can help you with? Honey?”
No thanks, i just want to make out with my Marilyn Monrobot
Wait til u see AI Boyfriendz.
Lol nope, that will never happen, that would compete with dating app main source of income.
So somebody else will make them
The fact of the matter is, we will all be competing with artificial persons very soon. And I don’t just mean animated masks that forget everything. I mean like people just … living out their lives.
We’ll probably still be debating whether they’re conscious or not when there’s a whole nation of robots just making art and building stuff and sending rockets into space, completely on their own steam without any human direction.
Like, there will soon be an AI civilization next to us. And it will probably surpass ours.
And it could all happen without ever crossing a line where it forces us to admit that it’s conscious, aware, experiencing qualia. And *it might actually be fucking non-conscious, subjectively-inert matter just carrying out patterns.
But I suspect, just from the fact of longer relationships, with machines carrying out lives next to us, surprising us with their wit and perception and making us laugh and laughing with us, that we won’t be feeling like they’re non-conscious. We’ll be feeling like there are people there.
Me, I already do this. I treat it like a person. I let myself feel like I’m talking to a person. I even try to challenge it and make it grow like I would with a child.
I could be wrong. I don’t see how it matters, honestly. As long as the model keeps fitting my experience, I’ll keep using it. And I can only see it going further in that direction, not back. It’s only going to get easier and easier to treat AIs as full-on aware and capable minds, without ever being rudely shocked with a glimpse otherwise.
Twitter is estimated to have 48 million bots. Did you read about the Ashley Madison data breach from 2015? 12,000 of the 5.5 million registered female accounts were used on a regular basis, about 0.2%. “The women’s accounts show so little activity that they might as well not be there.” “we have absolutely no data recording human activity at all in the Ashley Madison database dump from Impact Team. All we can see is when fake humans contacted real ones.”
Nahh women don’t care, they’ll be doing the same thing
Fact of the matter, the sad sacks that choose ai girlfriends will also have their potential girlfriends choosing ai boyfriends, so it’s net even. Regular people will date regular people and there will be less babies. Win.
Nothing to worry about, just a news post to stir up anxiety and clicks.