I wrote one of the first slobbering stories about Replika in 2017. Little did I know then it would pivot to encouraging its millions of users to form deeply unhealthy love attachments to the chatbots.
Holy shit, I knew this was going to happen, as the first unintended use of nearly every communication technology is porn/love scams, etc,. Had no idea this has already been going on, and now, powered by LLMs ... I always have said our children who go to the stars will be machines, but humans will need to stop beating off to their AI significant others for us to make any progress. ;-)
Holy shit, I knew this was going to happen, as the first unintended use of nearly every communication technology is porn/love scams, etc,. Had no idea this has already been going on, and now, powered by LLMs ... I always have said our children who go to the stars will be machines, but humans will need to stop beating off to their AI significant others for us to make any progress. ;-)