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Re:GirlfriendGPT – OSS AI Companion by logicchains on Tuesday May 23, 2023 @07:12AM (#36042642)
> People already have unhealthy parasocial relationships with influencers.

At least if they switch from parasocial relationships with influencers to parasocial relationships with open source bots they won't be financially exploited by the influencers. GPT doesn't have anything to sell us.

Re:GirlfriendGPT – OSS AI Companion by michaelmior on Tuesday May 23, 2023 @07:23AM (#36042734)
> they won't be financially exploited by the influencers. GPT doesn't have anything to sell us.

Except the vast majority of people aren't able to host such a bot themselves, so it seems inevitable that paid hosting services for such bots will arise. Then there's just the potential for financial exploitation at greater scale.

Re:GirlfriendGPT – OSS AI Companion by TheLoafOfBread on Tuesday May 23, 2023 @08:06AM (#36043138)
Well then catch the opportunity by the balls and start offering incels AI girlfriends written in a such a way to deradicalize them and emulate real interaction with a woman. They will subsequently get less aggressive more socialized and will also pay for it. Win-win situation.

I would call it Top W University.

Re:GirlfriendGPT – OSS AI Companion by Vuizur on Tuesday May 23, 2023 @08:13AM (#36043195)
Decent local LLMs such as Vicuna-7B are already able to run on phones with 8 GB RAM: https://mlc.ai/mlc-llm/

Right now it's a prototype, but in the future local LLMs will be everywhere.

Re:GirlfriendGPT – OSS AI Companion by bavell on Tuesday May 23, 2023 @09:55AM (#36044341)
I really, really hope this is the case. Trying to be optimistic about this in spite of my skeptical nature :)
Re:GirlfriendGPT – OSS AI Companion by solsane on Tuesday May 23, 2023 @07:21AM (#36042720)
Not so sure about that. Wendy's drivethrough chatbot is programmed to upsell. Even the base GPT is heavily tuned to cater to a corporate audience.
Re:GirlfriendGPT – OSS AI Companion by kaycey2022 on Wednesday May 24, 2023 @04:10AM (#36055329)
Is the upwelling behaviour introduced using prompt injection into a generic model or what?
Re:GirlfriendGPT – OSS AI Companion by Majestic121 on Tuesday May 23, 2023 @07:20AM (#36042704)
The commercial company exploiting ChatGPT and making it easy to use via whatsapp integrations, video, etc... surely will
Re:GirlfriendGPT – OSS AI Companion by Lolaccount on Tuesday May 23, 2023 @07:29AM (#36042790)
"GPT doesn't have anything to sell us"

Lol ...(worth the downvotes).

Just you wait and see.

Re:GirlfriendGPT – OSS AI Companion by rvense on Tuesday May 23, 2023 @08:55AM (#36043548)
> GPT doesn't have anything to sell us.

It will either find something to sell us, or we will be giving it ourselves to sell.

"If you're not paying, you're the product, not the customer"