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People got mad after they lost their AI boyfriend after GPT-4o deprecation (www.reddit.com)

submitted 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) by napkin2020@sh.itjust.works to c/aboringdystopia@lemmy.world

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This is downright terrifying...

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[–] iAvicenna@lemmy.world 6 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I mean this seems the most mild case to me. There are people who go on nature walks with their AI boyfriend, makes their AI boyfriend choose an engagement ring and then buy it or get dumped by their AI boyfriends after some updates that makes AI more suggestive towards human connections. The world is sadly in such an emotional crisis, people really grasp for comfort from wherever they can and isolate themselves from the rest as much as possible.

[–] TheOakTree@lemmy.zip 6 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

I also found the engagement rings really unsettling. The reason I find my example more worrying is because of the dissonance between humanization and dehumanization within the same action.

Say you were to replace an AI boyfriend with a real person in a cage, forcibly made to respond and tortured/drugged when giving a unsatisfactory response. If the user never became aware of this cruelty, they would perceive this change as an improvement (responses became more human). These users desperately argue that their AI boyfriends are processing emotion, love, and understanding like humans do, but continue to treat their AI boyfriends as sub-human.

Imagine if you had a partner who punished your undesirable behaviors by spiking you with amnesia-inducing drugs and training you to behave exactly how they want you to. Keep in mind that this has definitely happened to real people, and any decent person would identify the perpetrator as a criminal and abuser.

Terrifying.

EDIT: Fellow men, do better. The bar has gotten SO FUCKING LOW.