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An AI beauty pageant? Miss me with that Miss AI. (www.forbes.com)

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 8 months ago (1 children)

how are all of the AI girlfriend services doing? The last time it hit the news, one service ("replica" or something silly like that?) cut off the lewdness which angered users greatly. Are there new players in this space?

[–] [email protected] 12 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (3 children)

Honeymoon is over

https://www.wired.com/story/what-if-your-ai-girlfriend-hated-you/

[–] [email protected] 15 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

AngryGF, which offers its users the uniquely unpleasant experience of getting yelled at via messages from a fake person.

Is this the point where the Singularity bros claim that the first iteration of the Matrix where everyone was happy was rejected so naturally the only way to make it work is to introduce suffering?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago

I joke with my wife that we’re into bdsm because we’re hedonists raised catholic. It may be something like that, where you want a variety of intense sensations.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Yandere-as-a-service

[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago

spoiler: it's just a shell script that repeats "Anta baka?!"

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago

Anyone who needs this app needs to leave that relationship and either learn to communicate better or find a partner who can. This sounds extremely unrealistic though I might be biased as both of my partners have autism and communicate bluntly.