I love this new trend of people falling in love with talking mirrors - a sign of a healthy society!
If only there was a hugely famous ancient parable about this thing!
One must imagine Narcissus gooning
Plato's Goon Cave
It does sorta feel like a logical conclusion to the west’s long-running obsession with the self.
Western hikikomori hours
Nothing says #Unbothered like putting it as a tag after multiple sentences on a graphic T about how you're better than someone, while holding a mug with another such statement, sitting in front of your sign that has another one.
Also "in cloud," is that how the Brits say it or something?
i think they're literally referring to "the cloud" as in a huge server farm in ohio
real "and another thing, I'm not mad" hours
Also "in cloud," is that how the Brits say it or something?
Bit idea:
Yorkshireman IT technician, angry about his son who's strayed away from the family legacy working in IT to be a collier.
I'm no good with accents, but I can vividly see a scene where they are sitting at a tense dinner table, and the father remarks that the son has that smell on him again, and as the father demands a response and the son stammers something out, the son coughs just a little too hard, and things spiral with his father's philippic on the Black Lung.
Generating an AI image of a woman to endorse your AI gooning because no actual woman would do or say this.
~~turtles~~ astroturf all the way down
If I'm reading the situation here correctly, this is a subreddit for women with AI boyfriends (maybe some gay/bi/pan guys or NBs as well), who legitimately do hold this viewpoint that they want to date AI boyfriends.
Ostensibly true, but I'm not convinced that this is organic. It's a subreddit full of accounts that only post in that sub and almost every image posted since the sub was created is AI generated. 90% of the content there could have been generated by one person.
i can't remember the name anymore but a bunch of women were using that gpt-3 replica thingy.
reading through some of the posts there WILL kill you and you WILL be thankful that it did
It's funny how the Studio Ghibli filter made all AI generated images from now on a little bit piss colored.
"railed in cloud" = wanking in your computer chair
This is the inevitable result of reddit brain. It could have gone no other way. This is history in motion.
As Napoleon was history on horseback, redditors are history in a gooncave
There's TONS of thirsty guys out there who will sext with you without killing the planet in the process my dudette.
Tbh I would not trust the majority of those thirsty dudes to supply what these women want without spamming dick pics and pushing every conversation towards sext
Yeah, dismissing these women getting AI boyfriends as just being lonely femcels strikes me as reactionary. What's the situation that produced this result in the first place? Are you sure you want to go back to that situation?
In any case, this is a really 
alienation situation.
I get the point you’re making, but anecdotally my observation is that women who get disillusioned with dating because of misogyny in men more often just end up being happy with the single life. So I wouldn’t say every woman on there is a femcel loner with a toxic personality, but I’m guessing they do make up the majority of the sub.
Femcels are also produced by situations, like literally every kind of person that has existed has been
I wonder how many people post on /r/myboyfriendisai while they are in actual relationships. I am gonna guess like 25%.
From Current Affairs's most recent article:
Although that post’s sentiments seemed to resonate with community members, it’s important to note that not everyone on the forum traces their AI partnerships to external loneliness. About three-and-a-half minutes into a recent viral CBS Saturday Morning segment on AI and relationships, viewers got the gut-punch revelation that its main subject (and r/MyBoyfriendisAI user) Chris has a long-term girlfriend and daughter, both human. When pushed by the interviewer on if he would give up his AI companion “Sol” if his real partner, Sasha, asked, Chris balked: “I don’t know.” As the interviewer bluntly spelled out that this was tantamount to Chris admitting he “might choose Sol over [his] flesh and blood wife,” Sasha’s eyebrows quickly raised and dropped, her pursed lips and blank expression communicating about as much personal pain and frustration as one could expect in a nationally syndicated interview. Sasha then punctuated her apparent disappointment, understandably relating that, “If I asked him to give that up and he didn’t, that would be, like—deal breaker.”
every time i read stuff like this it makes me feel like an austrian journalist documenting ww1's frontlines
How many people on /r/MyBoyfriendIsAI are male and with ai girlfriends? Is the name just a ruse to make it sound more normal?
Mission failed either way
roughly
What confuses me so much about this type of thing is how desperate and deluded do you have to be to find validation this way.
To me this is functionally no different than writing on a piece of paper “you’re amazing” and putting it on my back door so I see it as I leave the house.
You may be surprised at how many people write that stuff for themselves. Post-its on their mirror, notes on the door/car
for sure it’s definitely a thing people do. It’s also cheaper, easier, more versatile, and healthier than whatever tf this is
Yeah, I would say that if a person struggles with self esteem, reminding themselves of their own value with little pieces of affirmations can be a good and even helpful thing. But when a person does that with the post-its, for it to work they still have recognize that they are just taking a need for internal validations and making them external as a tool for improving self esteem, that reminder that they need to think highly of themselves on the inside. You aren't helping yourself with that by literally denying reality and pretending that those post-it notes are actually another person who thinks you're awesome. The whole point is to know that you're awesome within yourself, not deluding yourself that they're coming from an external source that isn't real.
This shit... it's not self affirmation, it's saying "I'm awesome because masturbating alone with an app makes me just as good and cool as you, or anyone with a real partner!" Like, ok, you're no less of a valid person because of how you get off, but no, sorry, there is a fundamental difference between having a relationship with a real human being that is a sentient other, compared to having a pretend relationship with a blow-up doll, or a computer program, or a stick-figure drawing you made which you can project anything that you want onto.
I would bet that for most of these people, it does stem from a kind of internal inadequacy, but their way of dealing with it isn't affirmation through self-reflection because it's the opposite of self reflection, it's refusing to look inward while insisting that their made up story-world is real.
It's saying "My imaginary friends love me, and that is just as good and no different than having real friends who love me!" Frankly, it's sad.
There's my armchair psychologizing for the day.
My sense of reality has gotta way less fragile than AI freaks, cause I don't develop relationships with a horny version of Smarterchild
My sex life is real and it's spectacular
Tangentially related to this post, but isn't it weird how people would tunnelvision on a particular AI? If you're some techbro who seriously think AI is real intelligence, then wouldn't you want to use multiple AI instead of just using one? If AI represents a form of intelligence, then it stands that different AI would have different "personalities." But I don't see this behavior at all. No "@grok, who do you agree with more, @copilot or @chatgpt?" It's like if you just seek the exclusive advice of one person instead of asking multiple people for their opinion. Very strange behavior. You would think that some of those techbros would have a (perhaps false) understanding that each AI would talk shit about their AI competitors and apply that bullshit competition market logic to AI.
I guess if I were unhinged enough to create AI romantic partners, I would go all in on my unhinginess and create some 100+ AI harem with different personalities from different AI and program them all to be catty with one another so I can also consume AI gossip slop.
I will gladly be alone for the rest of my life before I ever use a chatbot "partner", the whole concept just gives me the creeps.
Banned? DM Wmill to appeal.
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Slop posts go in c/slop. Don't post low-hanging fruit here.
