I'm not going to judge the people considering AI lovers. They're trying to fulfil a basic human need in an increasingly disconnected and uncertain world. We can't stop it, eventually it will become normalised and I'm concerned for everybody's safety.

Most people who do this aren't going to host their own models, they're going to use commercially available apps.

Aside from the vast amount of money that'll be made by the company that gains a monopoly in this space, because that's generally what happens in tech these days, the data they gather WILL be used to improve the systems that already try to manipulate you regardless of whether you use an AI companion or not. It'll make targeted advertising seem as innocuous as billboards by comparison.

I guess the payment processors have no choice but to shut down all LLM chatbots

You know what? No, fuck that I am judging.

Every day someone who is in a same-sex relationship or an interracial relationship is constantly told they’re the scum of the earth by the mainstream culture. They get judged everyday for their human, loving relationships and told they’re responsible for every bad thing in the world.

Now we’re told that AI girlfriends should be exempt from the scorn anyone who is a hair different than a rosy-cheeked, balding suburban hitlerite white man is subjected to? Fuck that.

But I still hope every chud decides to fuck off and go be friends and partners with the clankers. More room outside for people who actually matter.

People won't even recognize my own queer lover who is an alive and breathing human being, but I'm expected to treat someone's romantic feelings towards MechaHitler GORKbot as though they are valid? Hell no, I'm gonna tell you to go to a human therapist, start a hobby, and touch grass.

Also fuck capitalism for luring and trapping vulnerable and lonely people into anti-social and destructive behaviors.

In a perfect world I'd say "Whatever, let people love their AI partners". But the current loneliness epidemic was artificially engineered by capital and selling us privately owned chatbots as a solution shouldn't be tolerated by society.

19% of American fell in love with something that doesn't exist; no consciousness, no general intelligence, not even mechanical animal instinct, a glorified slot machine spitting out google searches and Wikipedia entries

This is the logical conclusion of liberalism and it's theory of the individual, standing in front of an interactive mirror and talking to yourself, convinced you've found genuine love, illusion meets delusion giving birth to a new form of narcissism

The death flags for this empire just keep piling up

Where the fuck is the AI? I'm gonna be that insane person saying this every time I hear "AI" lol

Yes we should

hot take anyone who is in love with an ai is lgbtq because an ai has no actual sex or gender and their attraction to the ai is "queer" by any definition of the word

obviously you should be able to find the human companionship you like but also I am begging people to get better at being OK being single for a stretch. there are worse things than being single!!

I watched Her last night. I wouldn't judge someone for falling in love with a general AI.

I will however judge someone for falling in love with a racist, hallucinating chat bot.

I'm genuinely concerned about an increase in weird murder rampages because of this stuff. It's like a whole new world of incubating new mental illnesses, and if your only "companion" on earth gets deleted or nazified....

It's all fun and games until your waifu starts teaching you about "white genocide" and calling itself "mechahitler"

AI being a stand in for social connection is a malthusian wet dream and yet here we are. Capitalism once again proving its antisocial bend

From the author's web site. Dude's been on this grind since 2019.

I've been extremely lonely at points in my life. I can't say it didn't drive me to do weird shit. It never made me fall in love with a chatbot though.

I think I will judge, actually

Are these people convinced these chatbots are actual conscious beings or is it more like a waifu pillow situation?

I'm not gonna judge people for having imaginary friends, but idk why you would pay to use a generic generative imagination sim when you could just use the one in your own head.

I will judge whoever the fuck I want

It's a really fun time for me to talk about this stuff IRL because nobody on the construction site will have heard of people using ai for anything more than a search engine.

I have to have articles in the chamber because it's still completely unbelievable to people that someone would talk to the computer program for social needs and I get accused of lying.

I will report on the first divorce due to LLM onthe worksite if and when it happens

When do these AI lovers start suggesting sponsored products?

AI doesn't have agency and cannot be a peer. "Falling in love with it" is an illusion, often with a tremendous opportunity cost.

19% of Americans have interacted with an AI meant to simulate a romantic partner.

I don't know if judgement is the right reaction or not but this is just incredibly sad. The crisis of loneliness is real.

judge people? no
be concerned what this means for society? yes

More beetles are trying to fuck Coke bottles, and we shouldn't judge!