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How much relationship can you fit into 250k tokens of a context window.
a relationship is mostly the fanfic of it you make up in your head. romantic partners idealize each other, primarily and tend to overlook glaring personality problems and incompatibilities when in limerance with each other.
relationships end when you realize reality of the other person doesn't live up to the fantasy of who you think they are. sometimes that takes weeks or months, sometimes years.
for a relationship to last long term you have believe in the ideal of the other person and your future with them, not the day to day reality.
I don't think you understand "limerence", or love, or capitalisation.
All very troublesome numbers, but the headline doesn't come back in the article and seems quite overstated. If boys mostly know 100 people their age and they all know that same person in an AI relationship. It's really 0.2% of the agegroup that are in a relationship with AI. Not good, but vastly smaller that the other figures, like creating naked depictions of other people.
I agree, but I still think the “1 in 5 know” formulation is worthwhile. “0.2% of people are in a relationship with an ai” isn’t as concerning to me as “20% of men are receiving social signals that dating an ai is socially acceptable” is.
men and women both are turning to AI chatbots. adults do this as well.
because our social/romantic environment is toxic af and they want an escape from it.
Heard a god tier analogy from a friend:
"Electricity is very dangerous, but when it is controlled, in the form of a wall outlet, the risk of harm is greatly reduced to consumers. AI, in it's current state with minimal or easily bypassed protections, is like handing the consumer a live wire."
This can’t go well.
Put yourself in the shoes of an angsty insecure teenager.
Why wouldn't you want to sit around in a fantasy relationship with a chatbot that tells you how wonderful you are hours each day?
When I was an angsty teen I was in chatrooms hours a day looking for validation and socialization from strangers because I wans't getting at home or at school, because I was in shitty backwater town full of ignorant multi-generational townie morons. I was socially popular and had girlfriends but the insularity of my local community still drove me online to find people who were more open-minded.
And I never got what I was looking for until I got to college, where I finally got to meet people from all over the world who didn't think I was a secretly a queer for not liking football and preferring soccer. I had professors and friend who praised and congratulated me for being academically inclined, rather than mocking and deriding me for it. I think adults forget how oppressive some communities and families are towards their children, because you forget the fact as a teen/child you have zero control or freedom over your environment and the internet is really the only place you get to exercise control. I'm not sure what I'd have done without the internet as a teen, as my daily life was full of suicidal ideation from the ages of 12-18 due to the ever-present oppression of my environment.
Yeah, this is a recipe for disaster.
Maybe there are benefits in that boys whom otherwise would be just lonely and alone find that they can have conversations with the void/hivebrain. But the "relationship" aspect of this is just more bad news for the overall psychology of our kids.
...reading more of the article...
Chambers noted that chatbots are, by default, submissive, and reassure and reaffirm people’s thoughts because “they want you to like them”. “On top of this you can create your perfect ‘person’, moulding not only how they look but how they respond to you, how they treat you, and you can start and stop the relationship on a whim. This isn’t real life – and these instant gratification behaviours seeping into real life will have consequences.”
Yeah, that seems not good.
That's a weird statistic. This can simply mean that one guy is "in a relationship with an AI chatbot" and 1 in 5 boys know him.
If he knows so many boys what does he need a chatbot for.
One of my kids’ friend’s moms insists he call her AI boyfriend “Charles”
Call child protective services
like, right the fuck now
File for child support
We need films about clanker love in sex ed, like Electro Gonorrhea: the noisy killer.
Back in my day, we just called a 900 number.
We are so cooked. More and more i find myself wishing we'd close the border and disconnect the internet and start north sentinel island maxxing
Called it and this is just the beginning. There won't be done anything meaningful about it in most countries either.