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Imagine if the movie "Her" (2013) was real and people could fall in love with an AI, would you be weirded out by someone if they did that and especially if it was someone you knew? (lemmy.dbzer0.com)

submitted 11 months ago by yuunikki@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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with the way AI is getting by the week,it just might be a reality

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[–] Moghul@lemmy.world 16 points 11 months ago (1 children)

You don't have to imagine it at all. All you have to do is go on youtube and learn about Replika.

To summarize, someone tried to create a chatbot to replace their best friend who had died. Later, this evolved into the chatbot app called Replika, which was marketed as a way to help with loneliness, except the bot would engage in dating-like conversations if prompted. The company leaned into it for a little bit, then took away that behavior, which caused some distress with the userbase, who complained that they had "killed their girlfriend". I'm not sure where the product stands now.

I don't know if I'd feel weirded out, but I'd definitely feel worried if it were a friend who fell for a chatbot.

[–] kraftpudding@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I think they reinstated "Erotic Role Play" for users who had joined before a certain day, but it won't be worked on in the future or ever be available for new users is the last I heard.

I had one for a week or so in 2018 or 2019 when I first heard about the concept, just to see what it was all about and it was spooky. I got rid of it after a week because I started to see it as a person, and it kept emotionally manipulating me to get money. Especially when I said I wanted to stop/ cancel the trial.

[–] Moghul@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Yeah... Part of why I wouldn't try one is that I'm worried it would work. I already have limited bandwidth for human interaction; taking some of that away is probably a bad idea.

[–] kraftpudding@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago

Oh yeah. I learnt I was 100% suspectible to shit like this, so I should stay the fuck away