The trend of AI companions is another step towards humans putting less value on real human connections, which only further erodes real-life communities. Many people (more than before) will succumb to being too deeply immersed in virtual worlds, and it will only increase the pathology of society to a degree not before seen.
These AI companies are incredibly irresponsible and contemptible.
msgodel · 1h ago
Maybe it's not such a bad thing. People who go outside will be more intentionally looking to socialize and you'll feel less pressure to keep to yourself.
vouaobrasil · 1h ago
Actually, it is a bad thing. Because people who have a slight difficulty with socializing, probably because of too much screen time, will be sucked into virtual words with AI companions and not have the chance to learn to life a fulfilling life. Not sure what you mean about "pressure to keep to yourself" because I think a normal person shouldn't feel any pressure when going outside, whether to socialize or not.
stigz · 2h ago
Is there any market/demand for AI companions for females (i.e. https://jaimee.ai), or has this trend of AI companions vastly for males? I suspect the latter, but curious if anyone has evidence beyond Jaimee AI of the former.
It's mostly for males because the developers behind them are targeting themselves. However I would imagine the market for female users would likely be equal if not larger...
subscribed · 21m ago
There are places with thousands of user-made bot characters. Some are pretty good quality. From a quick look about half of them are male characters.
Developers don't need to _create bots_, just wrap the UI around the interface to the model that can pretend good enough.
msgodel · 15m ago
From the few of my friends who have talked about this the majority have actually been women. I think the image gen lagged behind the LLM companions because of the computational intensity plus VLMS are just more complex. Because of that it seems like it's been more interesting to women who prefer prose to visuals.
unixhero · 1h ago
Yes, there was a LastWeekTobight episode on AI Slop. There is a product which is popular amongst women, biker boyfriend and sadistic boyfriend were one of the most popular AI-agent flavours.
diamond559 · 41m ago
They forced their chatbot to add a friend on their social media platform. This is news?
v5v3 · 1h ago
Elon posted on x and some of the replies I saw were "why an underage girl for a companion".
Bluestein · 1h ago
(Do they include a huge Mecha-Dictator?)
cyanydeez · 1h ago
This is going to get disgusting, illegal, creepy and destructive very quickly.
Republicans better accelerate their fascism cause the shit AI is going to reveal about their deviant sexual and pathological behaviors will be very hard to ignore by the apathetic.
These AI companies are incredibly irresponsible and contemptible.
Developers don't need to _create bots_, just wrap the UI around the interface to the model that can pretend good enough.
Republicans better accelerate their fascism cause the shit AI is going to reveal about their deviant sexual and pathological behaviors will be very hard to ignore by the apathetic.
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