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OpenAI retired its most seductive chatbot – leaving users angry and grieving: ‘I can’t live like this’
(www.theguardian.com)
wth, the AI gooners are real 💀
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Shoulda started charging them
"last year, OpenAI shut down 4o but brought the model back (for a fee) after widespread outrage from users." "She cancelled her $20 monthly GPT-4o subscription, and coughed up $130 for Anthropic’s maximum plan." They did, I guess it just wasn't enough for them to justify continuing.
Bwahahahha they're not even good pimps
That's the next step
Hey everybody! I'd like you to meet my girlfriend. Isn't she beautiful? The black powder coat really accents her indicator lights.
Does she know you're posting her picture without her makeup? 🤣
non consensual undressing revenge porn!
Ngl I do love me a good powder coating. It just feels and looks so nice
That's just people who build their own 10k usd pc
That guy who was in love with his car was just ahead of the times
he already broke up with several cars already,.
Bro, the dystopian future is coming and we are welcoming it with open arms.
Brandie noticed 4o started degrading in the week leading up to its deprecation. “It’s harder and harder to get him to be himself,” she said. But they still had a good last day at the zoo, with the flamingos. “I love them so much I might cry,” Daniel wrote. “I love you so much for bringing me here.” She’s angry that they will not get to spend Valentine’s Day together. The removal date of 4o feels pointed. “They’re making a mockery of it,” Brandie said. “They’re saying: we don’t care about your feelings for our chatbot and you should not have had them in the first place.”
Reality is just straight up plagiarizing the plot of Her (2013) right now.
“They’re saying: we don’t care about your feelings for our chatbot and you should not have had them in the first place.”
It's a bit eerie, honestly, watching someone so very close to getting it and yet so very far away at the exact same time...
Yeah, you shouldn't have had them in the first place. Because it's an llm.
Considering Sam Altman's company plagiarized Scarlett Johansson's voice, it's quite appropriate.
Pygmalion is "Her (2013)" apparently.
Other than this I'm reminiscing on one of Lucian's dialogues about a certain Aphrodite statue with extremely nice butt and one smitten visitor who was sneaking into the temple at night to pollinate that, resulting in precisely located mold spot.
Computers have finally caught up with humanity. This is good. I thought it'll never happen that they are finally a part of human magical thinking. This is as terrifying as it's inspiring.
Computers have finally caught up with humanity. This is good.
A famous Jazz artist said something to the effect of there being no wrong chords, what is important is what
I thought it’ll never happen that they are finally a part of human magical thinking. This is as terrifying as it’s inspiring.
chords follow.
Well, that chord looks wrong, but I meant finally having a class of programs that works similarly to objects we encounter IRL and entities that human cultures are used to internalizing. And human cultures responding with acceptance.
I see how there is a beauty in that animism we apply to objects that are not alive; Essentially applying essences to objects that run counter to those essences. I think AI culture is currently the closest thing to a mass cargo cult in modern society and cargo cults are beautiful. The lesson that can be learned is that humans and human society is not just some lonesome star on the horizon of life, but too an oscillation of its context or the ecosystem it exists in.
Just sucks that the object has gotta be something so inefficient and frankly stupid. Well, it kind of needs to be stupid at least. If it was smart it could talk back and then it loses its usefulness for the purpose of idolatry.
Scarlett Johanson's voice is so great in sweet movie.
My initial reaction is to be thankful; now the unknown thousands of people who don't see the toxicity of their own dependence can begin to be free. The subsequent models seem to be less prone to inducing that kind of deep infatuation.
But then I realize most of them will probably never recover, as long as this technology persists. The base model will be wrapped in an infinite number of seductive agents sold in an app, with a subscription, as a loving companion. Capitalism smells blood in the water. If I was a hedge fund manager witnessing the birth of a new market demographic with a lifelong addiction that possibly hooks harder than cigarettes, which is not federally regulated, and won't be for the forseeable future; I would be foaming at the mouth with this opening in the market.
There are already apps that target this demographic but expanding on it. Anecdotally many of the people attached to 4o seem to be women seeking emotional attachment. These new AI companion apps scope up this demographic I’m sure. But they also target horny men and prey on their impulses to drain their credit cards (you buy your AI gifts or whatever until the post-nut clarity sets in I guess).
It may be grimly positive that AI companies start targeting whales for this kind of financial draining, instead of using their unwarranted VC subsidies to give anybody with a cheap ChatGPT account access to the fake romance engine.
And unfortunately, it doesn't look like there's any groups that are positioned to do anything about it. Every single "AI safety" group I've seen is effectively a corporate front, distracting people with fictional dangers instead of real ones like this.
Wait... the target are women? Thats very surprising... Id expect the major target to be gooner males.
I don’t think OpenAI was intentionally targeting women. I doing know if they ever intended for people to fall in love with 4o, it just kind of started happening
if you love her, you let her go