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[–] 9 points 1 year ago (1 child)

People are lonely and dating sucks. Humans provided a similar one sided relationship service as well. (Sugar babies come to mind)

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  • [–] 9 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Yes, yes. And yes.

    But

    Do you think openAI or Google, or X or whatever billionaire behind the AI involved in these "relationships" cares even minimally about the mental well-being of these people?

    The problem is not just the dating an AI thing, but who is managing these AIs.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Do you think openAI or Google, or X or whatever billionaire behind the AI involved in these "relationships" cares even minimally about the mental well-being of these people?

    No, but I wager neither does anyone else, or they wouldn't be dating a datacenter.

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    I'm not really sure these people fully understand what they are doing or they wouldn't be doing it at all.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    The bizarre thing is, some of them do understand how LLMs work. There was that article about a married woman with an LLM boyfriend. She's very active on Reddit (edit: or at least was until a month ago), and based on her comments I saw back when the article was published, she seems to know perfectly well that it's all just a statistical model of smoke and mirrors, and yet continues with the extreme emotional (and financial) investment 🤷

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