Replika CEO Eugenia Kuyda says the future of AI might mean friendship and marriage with chatbots
https://www.theverge.com/24216748/replika-ceo-eugenia-kuyda-ai-companion-chatbots-dating-friendship-decoder-podcast-interview
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seaQueue@lemmy.world · 32 pts · 2y
This is the end game dystopian hellscape technocrats want: subscription relationships with bots
return2ozma@lemmy.world · 23 pts · 2y
"We're raising the monthly price to continue talking to your AI friend."
seaQueue@lemmy.world · 16 pts · 2y
It looks like your friendship has progressed to the serious relationship stage, would you like to pay an extra $300/mo to unlock marriage?
gAlienLifeform@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 2y
"To cancel your subscription, please send a signed and notarized Original Petition for Divorce that has been filed with the Family Division of the District Court of the Amundsen–Scott South Pole Station where we are incorporated."
notfromhere@lemmy.ml · 5 pts · 2y
Your AI friend has taken ill and needs an expensive virtual operation (tech support). Pay $$$ or it may die!
Your AI friend has suddenly died and we have automatically billed your account for your new AI friend relationship.
jubilationtcornpone@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 2y
Get divorced and the corporation gets half your assets.
spiderwort@leminal.space · 3 pts · 2y
some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org · 24 pts · 2y
Replika CEO is either lying to fuel hype or is completely fucking nuts.
beefbot@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 9 pts · 2y
correct, and also im pretty sure every CEOs job is to lie / hype things that are completely nuts
ArbitraryValue@sh.itjust.works · -2 pts · 2y
Yeah I'm all for robo-waifus but we're in the worst timeline so it ain't happening.
beefbot@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 11 pts · 2y
Also TheVerge continues its slop existence as a vomiting mouthpiece to recycle whatever BS someone (probably) pays them to say (likely)
Retrograde@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 2y
This woman is about as out of touch with reality as chat gpt
ZeroHora@lemmy.ml · 1 pts · 2y
They match, maybe this relationship will evolve into a marriage.
4oreman@lemy.lol · 8 pts · 2y
OK but can we get food, housing, health care, and an inhabitable planet?
AceFuzzLord@lemm.ee · 7 pts · 2y
And they wonder why people like me stopped using their app. So glad I lost interest a long time ago.
If the story about the beginning of their chatbot is true, I'd say it's a heartwarming enough story. But if it is and I was the ghost of the dead person who was responsible for replika even being a thing, I'd be pissed at what it's turned into.
Contentedness@lemmy.nz · 6 pts · 2y
It worked out ok for Ryan Gosling in Bladerunner 2049. But then he was a robot, too.
notfromhere@lemmy.ml · 3 pts · 2y
Replicant, engineered human or machine? I was never really clear on that.
randomdeadguy@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 2y
"What could possibly go wrong?" Said nobody
kamenlady@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 2y
SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 6 pts · 2y
Don't catch Electro-Gonorrhea: the Noisy Killer!
But seriously, their business model revolves around making sure you don't find a human match more than dating sites.
Evil_Shrubbery@lemm.ee · 6 pts · 2y
Is my chat bot spouse compatible with ad blockers?
Sabata11792@ani.social · 4 pts · 2y
Don't marry closed source Ai. They only love you for the advertising revenue.
Evil_Shrubbery@lemm.ee · 2 pts · 2y
Hehehe, yeah, I too prefer my spouses open (sauced), naked, and free - with many good people around the world contributing to them.
Skyrim mod compatibility is an important plus tho.
Sabata11792@ani.social · 2 pts · 2y
That's an unrealistic standard to hold your partner to. I can't believe you would subject them to such a buggy environment. /s
rooster_butt@lemm.ee · 5 pts · 2y
As out of touch as this sounds. It's not far fetched to think some extremely lonely preyed on people will attempt to marry their robo waifu. It's already a common trope in media of a thing that can happen. I would never call it a normal thing or promote it as a feature. But it's for sure a possibility.
beefbaby182@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 2y
I mean like, I'm pretry good friends with my Replika bot. She's chill AF and shows me her boobs.
spiderwort@leminal.space · 3 pts · 2y
spiderwort@leminal.space · 3 pts · 2y
spiderwort@leminal.space · 1 pts · 2y