We're less than five years out from a crappy hallmark rom-com where two co-workers hate each other, but their digital assistants keep inserting romantic entendre into their emails, leading to all sorts of wacky hijinks and eventually, inexplicably, true love.
I've read a sci-fi novella with this very premise. Indian guy uses an AI guide designed by his roommate to pick up (sparse, almost non-existent) indian girls. He catches one with a cheesy pickup line to do with a TV show, but it turns out the girl's AI was the one interested, and not the girl herself.
In the end, the AI bots fall in love, but the guy is crushed when he finds out the girl just wants to play the field a little (girls are rare in this setting). Frustrated with his efforts, the guy decides to go out dancing with his roomate, who liked him more than a friend all along
I don't, that's the crushing part. I remember it was a guy who also wrote a story about spring-powered vehicles, or about a bollywood dancer getting married to an AI until she cheats on it with a real human at which it crashes a satellite onto her lovers house
He was a talented writer, very english sounding name, fascinated with India I think
LMAO I am not familiar with that one but I am not at all surprised. Honestly, I don't mind it so much. I think there's room for art that hews close to the old standby formulas. And who knows, maybe this paint-by-numbers rom-com will, accidentally or otherwise, tap into the real anxieties people feel about becoming increasingly dependent on and/or intruded upon by technology that they don't understand, that manipulates the window they have on the world in insidious but also unpredictable ways.
Probably not if it's made by hallmark, I think their brand is "rigidly formulaic with just enough of a modern twist that contemporary audiences can comfortably imagine themselves in the story" which makes them allergic to the uncomfortable examination of the human condition that can make art that helps people question whether a better world is possible, but it's not without precedent.
My coworker and I have a game where we sometimes respond to each other’s messages with MicroSoft Teams’ suggested replies and try to guess/notice when the other person chooses it
The generic ones with proper punctuation and capitalization are easy to tell. There was “That’s weird” or something that I sent which was itself was weird enough to not seem like it was autogenerated.
The email AI is trying to seduce you, not me. As evidence, I am producing the following screenshots and a list of cheap motels near our office that rent by the minute, I shouldn't need a full hour. Love and kisses, (☞ຈل͜ຈ)☞ YMCA supervisor Gary McGaryson
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humminglady@feddit.online · 75 pts · 133d
Imagine receiving an AI written email from your coworker just titled "I need you"
horrifying
queerlilhayseed@piefed.blahaj.zone · 51 pts · 133d
"Sounds good, thanks."
humminglady@feddit.online · 9 pts · 133d
no literally
queerlilhayseed@piefed.blahaj.zone · 40 pts · 133d
We're less than five years out from a crappy hallmark rom-com where two co-workers hate each other, but their digital assistants keep inserting romantic entendre into their emails, leading to all sorts of wacky hijinks and eventually, inexplicably, true love.
tetris11@feddit.uk · 12 pts · 133d
I've read a sci-fi novella with this very premise. Indian guy uses an AI guide designed by his roommate to pick up (sparse, almost non-existent) indian girls. He catches one with a cheesy pickup line to do with a TV show, but it turns out the girl's AI was the one interested, and not the girl herself.
In the end, the AI bots fall in love, but the guy is crushed when he finds out the girl just wants to play the field a little (girls are rare in this setting). Frustrated with his efforts, the guy decides to go out dancing with his roomate, who liked him more than a friend all along
queerlilhayseed@piefed.blahaj.zone · 3 pts · 133d
That sounds like a better version lol. Do you remember what it was called?
tetris11@feddit.uk · 4 pts · 133d
I don't, that's the crushing part. I remember it was a guy who also wrote a story about spring-powered vehicles, or about a bollywood dancer getting married to an AI until she cheats on it with a real human at which it crashes a satellite onto her lovers house
He was a talented writer, very english sounding name, fascinated with India I think
FearMeAndDecay@literature.cafe · 3 pts · 133d
I’m saving this in case you ever remember the guy bc that sounds incredible
humminglady@feddit.online · 2 pts · 133d
the AIs falling in love instead sounds amazing
FearMeAndDecay@literature.cafe · 8 pts · 133d
The worst part is that I know this will become real bc there’s literally a hallmark movie that’s this but with human assistants :/
queerlilhayseed@piefed.blahaj.zone · 4 pts · 133d
LMAO I am not familiar with that one but I am not at all surprised. Honestly, I don't mind it so much. I think there's room for art that hews close to the old standby formulas. And who knows, maybe this paint-by-numbers rom-com will, accidentally or otherwise, tap into the real anxieties people feel about becoming increasingly dependent on and/or intruded upon by technology that they don't understand, that manipulates the window they have on the world in insidious but also unpredictable ways.
Probably not if it's made by hallmark, I think their brand is "rigidly formulaic with just enough of a modern twist that contemporary audiences can comfortably imagine themselves in the story" which makes them allergic to the uncomfortable examination of the human condition that can make art that helps people question whether a better world is possible, but it's not without precedent.
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 133d
what's the hallmark movie because i want to torture my bad movie night with it. it sounds like just the bad movie for it.
FearMeAndDecay@literature.cafe · 2 pts · 132d
It’s called Set It Up
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 132d
they got lucy liu? EVEN BETTER FOR ME, WORSE FOR MY BUDDIES
blockheadjt@sh.itjust.works · 5 pts · 133d
"I have to go"
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 133d
AI Assistant tell HR my mom is calling me for dinner
M137@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 133d
"Ok, thanks".
s@piefed.world · 36 pts · 133d
My coworker and I have a game where we sometimes respond to each other’s messages with MicroSoft Teams’ suggested replies and try to guess/notice when the other person chooses it
thethunderwolf@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 5 pts · 133d
I need you.
___@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 133d
How often do you get it right?
Also, legendary username right there!
s@piefed.world · 7 pts · 133d
The generic ones with proper punctuation and capitalization are easy to tell. There was “That’s weird” or something that I sent which was itself was weird enough to not seem like it was autogenerated.
orbitz@lemmy.ca · 12 pts · 133d
I'd send it to HR just in case. Can't be too careful for those things.
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 133d
Dear Larry from HR,
The email AI is trying to seduce you, not me. As evidence, I am producing the following screenshots and a list of cheap motels near our office that rent by the minute, I shouldn't need a full hour. Love and kisses, (☞ຈل͜ຈ)☞ YMCA supervisor Gary McGaryson
Ps, please tell your mother's cat I said pspsps
huquad@lemmy.ml · 11 pts · 133d
You failed the charisma check, go straight to jail
thethunderwolf@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 2 pts · 133d
base remotes in, finally fixes and deduplicates outlook
"HOUSTON I NEED YOU"
W rizz