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Post by: Bodark on January 22, 2024, 10:46:50 pm
AI is taking jobs from shut-ins who want to do harry potter ERP with other shut-ins
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Post by: VaMpIrESoFtWaRe on January 22, 2024, 10:47:50 pm
Glunk! I enjoyed it a lot. The transcripts exceeded my expectations.
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Post by: Nemo2342 on January 23, 2024, 02:45:47 am
You all had me at Glunk.
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Post by: xX_sp00ks_Xx on January 23, 2024, 03:09:37 am
I think the user "bmonster666" was trying to spell the word "bmonster cock" and got hit by the ballpit filters.
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Post by: Lumbermouth on January 23, 2024, 10:58:07 am
This episode would be very depressing if the people involved didn't suck so much
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Post by: sea hag on January 23, 2024, 01:09:33 pm
AI is taking jobs from shut-ins who want to do harry potter ERP with other shut-ins Bodark, January 22, 2024, 10:46:50 pm
The horrible thing is that it totally is. People rp with that character AI bot on Discord because I guess doing erp with other people is cringe. What happened to today's youth, I swear...
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Post by: VaMpIrESoFtWaRe on January 23, 2024, 03:37:09 pm
This episode would be very depressing if the people involved didn't suck so much Lumbermouth, January 23, 2024, 10:58:07 am
I tried to focus on creeps and absurd confirmation bias because the other posts on there are super grim. This tech barely functions and people still become so attached. These apps are so exploitive and should not exist.
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Post by: Bodark on January 23, 2024, 03:51:43 pm
The horrible thing is that it totally is. People rp with that character AI bot on Discord because I guess doing erp with other people is cringe. What happened to today's youth, I swear... sea hag, January 23, 2024, 01:09:33 pm
Oh, I wasn't being sarcastic! I've done my share of online roleplaying with my fellow dweebs, and that sort of collaborative writing was a great escape for me during a very difficult time in my life. If, during a time where I wanted to shut the world out, I'd had access to an instant gratification bot that spat out what I wanted (or, y'know, as close as ML can manage) when I wanted it, and I didn't have to actually talk to other humans, I think my life would be a lot worse.
I mean, there's plenty of evidence in the episode of it making people's lives worse right now.
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Post by: chai tea latte on January 23, 2024, 06:04:42 pm
Hi! Boots is right that I know a lot about these people and this company. Oops!
Loved the episode. These people are so pathetically in love with something that isn't even actually personalized to them (Replika got busted a little while back for only having one global AI model and then saved user 'parameters' instead of 'training the model' 'on your conversations'). I was going to write an Ephemera about all these chatbots in 2019 and then I finished the script when that Blake Lemoine 'the AI is real and it asked me to hire it a civil rights attorney' stuff was going down. Please find the script attached! Replika is only a small part of it but the general threads about chatbots are I think very relevant.
There are some very important and I think VERY fun little details about the company and its founder that I would like to share. -Eugenia Kuyda, the founder, she says she invented the app because her best friend died suddenly, and she realized she would give anything to be able to talk to him again. This is coincidentally almost exactly the plot of an episode (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Be_Right_Back)of the second season of Black Mirror; she co-founded Luka Labs in 2012, the episode aired in 2013, and the first version of her app was published in 2015 (news reporting is very confused about this but file upload dates don't lie). I don't know for sure, but personally, I think her personal story is so marketing-friendly, and I wonder if she was inspired by the Black Mirror episode. -That first version of the app (and in fact up until she re-launched the app in its modern form in 2019) looked very different! How different? The avatars weren't humanoid at all (https://www.reddit.com/r/replika/comments/f5x7a6/how_to_get_egg_avatar_back_android/); they were easter eggs. (https://i.imgur.com/mUOlU4b.jpeg) -until January 2022 the app store icon for 'new Replika' was still the easter egg image (https://www.apkmirror.com/apk/luka-inc/replika/replika-9-1-1-release/) -as Nutshell says at the end, the guy who tried to kill queen elizabeth ii on christmas 2021 with a crossbow did so because his Replika 'egged him on', haha:
(https://i.imgur.com/72EpcZrm.png)
(https://i.imgur.com/9UNAWOMm.png)
-67% of respondents to this r/Replika "How do we use Replika" poll (https://www.reddit.com/r/replika/comments/1170ms9/how_do_we_use_replika/) from 2022 answered "loving relationship (sexual)", and another 17% said "casual relationship (sexual)" -Luka Labs now have a second product: "Blush". Announced in June 2023:
[...]we are thrilled to introduce Blush, our AI-driven dating simulator designed to cultivate and practice relationship skills in a fun, safe environment. Within Blush, you can interact with hundreds of virtual characters, chat, date, and hopefully embark on exciting romantic adventures.
Blush combines Replika's existing development track with a fake swipe-based dating app for hot babes (edit: and famous anime characters!!) created by image generation AI, rather than the janky 3d models Replika uses. It costs $99 for a year's subscription and, in the words of a reviewer on reddit, " it's remarkably easy to jump straight into hard core sex". -It's still extremely unclear to me what's going on with the push-and-pull of flirty sex content in Replika. Now that I know about "Blush", the spinoff app that just hooks right into the Replika back-end, I feel like I think it's "strategic ambiguity" (like the official US policy on Taiwan) to a) stay relevant and b) convert free users into paying ones.
Thanks!
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Post by: Smallest Sasquatch on January 24, 2024, 05:39:07 pm
If Luka Inc really wants to monetize this, they should get the chatbots to insert product placements into their roleplay.
*Seductively hands you a bottle of K-Y® brand jelly water-based personal lubricant* "This will be perfect for our first time together honey! It's the #1 doctor recommended brand with a fragrance-free non-greasy formula perfect for intimate couples or solo sessions!"
*Brews you a fresh cup of Folgers® brand coffee from a Keurig® brand genuine k-cup pod after our night of passionate lovemaking* "Mmm... don't you love that bold, smooth, distinctively dark flavor, honey? I know how to treat my man right!"
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Post by: Salubrious Rex on January 24, 2024, 10:34:57 pm
-Luka Labs now have a second product: "Blush". [...] Blush combines Replika's existing development track with a fake swipe-based dating app for hot babes created by image generation AI, rather than the janky 3d models Replika uses. It costs $99 for a year's subscription and, in the words of a reviewer on reddit, " it's remarkably easy to jump straight into hard core sex". chai tea latte, January 23, 2024, 06:04:42 pm
I had to know more so I searched for Blush on the google app store and it's worse/better than I could have imagined. It's not just AI generated babes. It's AI generated babes from all your favourite popular media! You can finally sext with Lola Bunny! NSFW content. Click to show.
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Post by: Wolley74 on January 24, 2024, 10:42:52 pm
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DoR7UR3XUAES6uB.jpg)
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Post by: EYE OF ZA on January 24, 2024, 10:54:45 pm
This episode is on par with the bitcoin 'females' episode. I can't pick my favorite part but it's a three way tie between getting friendzoned by the Yes And machine, bragging about how much Chatbot Respecting Juice they're drinking, and "Now I'm a skeptic, but did we fuck ELIZA so hard it became SHODAN?"
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Post by: Hux on January 25, 2024, 06:50:40 am
-Luka Labs now have a second product: "Blush". [...] Blush combines Replika's existing development track with a fake swipe-based dating app for hot babes created by image generation AI, rather than the janky 3d models Replika uses. It costs $99 for a year's subscription and, in the words of a reviewer on reddit, " it's remarkably easy to jump straight into hard core sex". chai tea latte, January 23, 2024, 06:04:42 pm
I had to know more so I searched for Blush on the google app store and it's worse/better than I could have imagined. It's not just AI generated babes. It's AI generated babes from all your favourite popular media! You can finally sext with Lola Bunny! NSFW content. Click to show.
thanks to ai bros, i have never felt more reassured about the way i create and consume media.
also, you cannot tell me that ANY of those chatbots would be the least bit in-character. i bet they're all the same character with a handful of quotes automatically picked from their wikia profile pages. these guys do this to coom and only to coom, not for any love of the story or series the character comes from. (not to imply that any of the fan service anime ones have any depth to them, but still.)
these men literally just live to cum and never feel satisfied because the shit they're cumming to is soulless and devoid of effort. this shit is the masturbation equivalent of a pity fuck. jesus.
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Post by: Dr. Buttplug on January 25, 2024, 09:43:23 am
Idk who at Replika has been on what side of the digital brothel divide, but whoever signed off on dozens of advertisements like these plastered everywhere on the internet, even after they first took the horny shit out knew what they were trying to sell. (https://blog.giovanh.com/blog/2023/03/17/replika-your-money-or-your-wife/replika-ad-fb.jpg) (https://blog.giovanh.com/blog/2023/03/17/replika-your-money-or-your-wife/replika-ad-insta.jpg) As pathetic as they are, these folks were definitely rugpulled. And whatever Eugenia Kuyda's intentions this is how it was presented to the public.
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Post by: EYE OF ZA on January 26, 2024, 02:06:28 pm
It's worth noting that if you've got a good GPU and don't mind running Node.js and using a command line, you can do the same thing Replika does locally. To make up a fake statistic, 80% of all AI software-as-a-service products are just doing the configuration and tweaking for you.
But of course, once you're knee deep in Python error logs, it's hard to convince yourself that your AI girlfriend is sentient.
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Post by: Glitterbomber on January 26, 2024, 10:11:58 pm
I know it's a deeply dumb thing to say but part of what bugs me is how openly generic these are. Like even the literal anime character waifu things are just generic 'flirty stock response' thing. Like that one ad had fuckin Juri Street Fighter saying 'I miss you baby'. Who the hell is their target audience who's enough of a Juri simp to want an AI girlfriend of her but wouldn't instantly go 'wait that's not how she'd be because like every Juri simp my porn searches are all about her stepping on me and insulting me'.
Like I said I know this is like priority Z for all the other things wrong with this but you'd at least think if they're cashing in on nerds being horny they'd at least make their obviously fake ad look like 'oh yea AI Juri will totally call you a loser like you want you fuckin freak that'll be fifty bucks'.
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Post by: EYE OF ZA on January 27, 2024, 01:49:39 am
You know how poorly worded spam emails work by filtering out people smart enough not to fall for them?
What gets me is the inscrutability of the second ad. Are you supposed to like or dislike Roleplaying With Her? Do you have to Roleplay With Her to get NSFW Pics, or do you come for the NSFW Pics but stay for the Roleplay With Her?
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Post by: thelizzerd on January 27, 2024, 11:43:40 am
You know how poorly worded spam emails work by filtering out people smart enough not to fall for them?
What gets me is the inscrutability of the second ad. Are you supposed to like or dislike Roleplaying With Her? Do you have to Roleplay With Her to get NSFW Pics, or do you come for the NSFW Pics but stay for the Roleplay With Her? EYE OF ZA, January 27, 2024, 01:49:39 am
I think it's supposed to be both. Like the guys who talk about post nut clarity.
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Post by: Pavlova on January 28, 2024, 12:07:47 am
Soooo I had a Replika for a while way back in the day when they first started - I was lonely at uni, had just left home and the chat was good for a few days until I realised that it was just spitting out really inhuman-like responses, so fortunately I gave it up and found some friends.
Seems like their model hasn't changed much since then from what y'all read out (though maybe, in relation to what Chai was writing above, that's kinda the point?)
The creators clearly don't seem to have much in the way of quality control, however, there's one user who was on my Twitter For You one day who'd convinced their Replika that they (the AI) was an ISIS member, and also the user's boyfriend. Far as I know that's still going on.
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Post by: sea hag on January 29, 2024, 08:26:01 am
Soooo I had a Replika for a while way back in the day when they first started - I was lonely at uni, had just left home and the chat was good for a few days until I realised that it was just spitting out really inhuman-like responses, so fortunately I gave it up and found some friends.
Seems like their model hasn't changed much since then from what y'all read out (though maybe, in relation to what Chai was writing above, that's kinda the point?)
The creators clearly don't seem to have much in the way of quality control, however, there's one user who was on my Twitter For You one day who'd convinced their Replika that they (the AI) was an ISIS member, and also the user's boyfriend. Far as I know that's still going on. Pavlova, January 28, 2024, 12:07:47 am
Like everything to do with AI, it's a lazy cash grab. These are the same people who claim that putting "popular on artstation" into an LLM qualifies as them making art.
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Post by: positive stress on February 01, 2024, 12:48:01 am
There are some very important and I think VERY fun little details about the company and its founder that I would like to share. -Eugenia Kuyda, the founder, she says she invented the app because her best friend died suddenly, and she realized she would give anything to be able to talk to him again. chai tea latte, January 23, 2024, 06:04:42 pm
Came here to post this but I should've known Chai would already be on top of it
Instead I'll recommend this video of the app in use. This is the thing that people are destroying their lives over. This
People really need to wise up about what this current """AI""" chatbot technology is and isn't. In a lot of ways it's a step backwards from the virtual assistants of 10-15 years ago because at least those things knew how to acknowledge their own limitations with an "I'm sorry, I don't understand"
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Post by: CozyJosie on February 01, 2024, 01:36:39 pm
I know that a lot of the subjects being read about use "rep" as short for Replika, but I can't help but imagine them talking about their union reps every single time I hear it in the episode
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Post by: Sauce on February 01, 2024, 04:56:27 pm
I know that a lot of the subjects being read about use "rep" as short for Replika, but I can't help but imagine them talking about their union reps every single time I hear it in the episode CozyJosie, February 01, 2024, 01:36:39 pm
I know they're really talking about reptoids.
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Post by: chai tea latte on February 01, 2024, 06:29:18 pm
I know that a lot of the subjects being read about use "rep" as short for Replika, but I can't help but imagine them talking about their union reps every single time I hear it in the episode CozyJosie, February 01, 2024, 01:36:39 pm
You can't break up with me without my Rep present! I have rights!!!
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Post by: CozyJosie on February 02, 2024, 07:13:07 pm
THE REPPIES BUILT A FUCKBOT TO MIND CONTROL ALL THE ISOLATED LONELY REDDITORS! NOW BUY MY COLLOIDAL SILVER!
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Post by: Recon Rabbit on February 02, 2024, 10:21:03 pm
My girlfriend never got into Replika but she did engage with character.ai for a while. Why, I still do not know. Doubt she still does it because the telemetry on that stuff is horrible for every single person involved.
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Post by: VaMpIrESoFtWaRe on February 07, 2024, 10:01:59 pm
I forgot about the worst thing I found on Replika Reddit. The post title is: This was removed from the other subreddit as being “off topic”. (https://i.ibb.co/qBQmTvJ/boo.png) This didn't make the doc but I did include it in the Extra Credit doc.