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Re:OnlyFans Models Are Using AI Impersonators to Keep Up wit... by dragoncheats on Thursday December 12, 2024 @12:01AM (#42396374)
I actually been in this exact scenario before. I and another friend were avidly into Hearthstone, and another third person was playing with an Hearthstone Cheat bot in an University study room. We asked to watch for a while.

After a while, some dread was setting in. We started asking questions:

* Why did it hover that card?

"To pretend it's human. The card has less than 10% playrate on that class"

* Did it... just spam the Well Met meme while going face?

"Of course. Because people do it"

* Wait it ropes the opponents?

"Yes. You can set it to rope back"

We kept seeing more and more behaviors. It would squelch noisy opponents. It would even tap the ground pretending to be a bored person. And then it hit me: 95% of Hearthstone players are bots. Every single human behavior that you could perhaps use to identify 'people', it faked.

I quit Hearthstone within that week.

Re:OnlyFans Models Are Using AI Impersonators to Keep Up wit... by eastbound on Thursday December 12, 2024 @12:49AM (#42396578)
People looking for dates on Tinder.

Yes more than 70% of Tinder profiles are already probably bots at this time. The CEO said they had an AI strategy.

People will be more and more lonely.

Re:OnlyFans Models Are Using AI Impersonators to Keep Up wit... by femto on Thursday December 12, 2024 @01:32AM (#42396773)
> People will be more and more lonely.

Or people might be less lonely. There will come a point where the online experience becomes worthless and people will place greater importance on face-to-face interaction. That's how it was 20 years ago.

Re:OnlyFans Models Are Using AI Impersonators to Keep Up wit... by EGreg on Thursday December 12, 2024 @10:08AM (#42399760)
Don’t worry, robots are coming for that too https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surrogates

Will be very hard to tell the difference until you are intimate

Re:OnlyFans Models Are Using AI Impersonators to Keep Up wit... by LargoLasskhyfv on Thursday December 12, 2024 @11:50AM (#42400822)
Why surrogates wouldn't be able to function as teledildonic proxies for 'intimacy'?
Re:OnlyFans Models Are Using AI Impersonators to Keep Up wit... by EGreg on Monday December 16, 2024 @01:32PM (#42433819)
You'd be able to tell the difference.
Re:OnlyFans Models Are Using AI Impersonators to Keep Up wit... by LargoLasskhyfv on Monday December 16, 2024 @02:24PM (#42434370)
Come on, how would you know the difference, if you'd grown up without ever have known the real thing?

To extrapolate the theme of that movie just a little bit further?

Re:OnlyFans Models Are Using AI Impersonators to Keep Up wit... by bboygravity on Thursday December 12, 2024 @01:13AM (#42396683)
It's hard for me to understand how Tinder is not dead yet. One big pile of pop-up ads (even when you pay you get upsell popups) and some Chinese scammer bots.
Re:OnlyFans Models Are Using AI Impersonators to Keep Up wit... by rjrdi38dbbdb on Thursday December 12, 2024 @03:19AM (#42397297)
It's highly dependent on location. I use it while traveling, and yes in a few countries it's useless, but I've met 300-400 people over the last 7 years. It's added more value to my life than any other single app (even though I've never paid a dime for it).

For the record, I'm male, mid 30's, and average looking.

Re:OnlyFans Models Are Using AI Impersonators to Keep Up wit... by itishappy on Thursday December 12, 2024 @01:48PM (#42402044)
An average of 1 person per week over a period of 7 years? Impressive. Is it fair to assume you're using a relatively shallow definition of "value" here, or was there something else you had in mind?
Re:OnlyFans Models Are Using AI Impersonators to Keep Up wit... by aboardRat4 on Thursday December 12, 2024 @02:42AM (#42397098)
It's even more of a shame that OkCupid is dead. They had such a nice method, which was actually introducing good people to me.
Re:OnlyFans Models Are Using AI Impersonators to Keep Up wit... by Tknl on Thursday December 12, 2024 @02:56AM (#42397190)
I'd argue that what Match Group did with OKC was bordering on criminal. Everything on it worked and it worked for small, often marginalized groups. It was turned into a worse version of tender.
Re:OnlyFans Models Are Using AI Impersonators to Keep Up wit... by bilvar on Thursday December 12, 2024 @05:11AM (#42397888)
I met my wife through OKC, she's a lovely lady.
Re:OnlyFans Models Are Using AI Impersonators to Keep Up wit... by riffraff on Thursday December 12, 2024 @01:59AM (#42396885)
Why would you quit hearthstone over the presence of bots?

It's not like you have meaningful interactions with the other players anyway (beyond the occasional post-game friend request which has a 50/50 chance to be abusive).

(Honest question, I'm not arguing you're wrong)

Re:OnlyFans Models Are Using AI Impersonators to Keep Up wit... by rightbyte on Thursday December 12, 2024 @04:45AM (#42397768)
In multiplayer games much of the fun in winning is someone else losing.
Re:OnlyFans Models Are Using AI Impersonators to Keep Up wit... by botanical76 on Thursday December 12, 2024 @05:48AM (#42398099)
If you are just playing against bots, the challenge is arbitrary. What would top 10% actually mean? 5000 ELO? Albeit, the ranks are slightly arbitrary already as the matchmaking algorithm significantly influences your competitive experience. But you know when you get higher rank, you have proven you are better than increasing amounts of real players. If every person was actually playing a single player variant of the game (matched against bots), the reward for climbing the ranked ladder is significantly diminished.
Re:OnlyFans Models Are Using AI Impersonators to Keep Up wit... by ZephyrBlu on Thursday December 12, 2024 @04:28AM (#42397649)
> 95% of Hearthstone players are bots

Pure cope, but whatever helps you sleep better at night.

Re:OnlyFans Models Are Using AI Impersonators to Keep Up wit... by boredhedgehog on Thursday December 12, 2024 @05:01AM (#42397838)
> Every single human behavior that you could perhaps use to identify 'people', it faked.

Except, you know, actually playing the game well. The bots all play aggro decks and get lower than average winrates.

> I quit Hearthstone within that week.

Why? Their presence makes climbing the ladder easier, so you get more rewards.

Re:OnlyFans Models Are Using AI Impersonators to Keep Up wit... by timeon on Thursday December 12, 2024 @05:35AM (#42398004)
> I quit Hearthstone within that week.

So it had positive effect in the end. I wish I had something like this that would stop me use any social media.

Re:OnlyFans Models Are Using AI Impersonators to Keep Up wit... by blitzar on Thursday December 12, 2024 @05:59AM (#42398153)
> I wish I had something like this that would stop me use any social media.

We must be looking at different social medias as this is pretty much all I see.

Re:OnlyFans Models Are Using AI Impersonators to Keep Up wit... by EGreg on Thursday December 12, 2024 @03:50PM (#42403196)
Well, very soon you can quit the Internet LOL
Re:OnlyFans Models Are Using AI Impersonators to Keep Up wit... by account42 on Monday December 16, 2024 @06:46AM (#42430185)
Well unlike with modern multiplayer games where the matchmaking algorithm decides who you play with, on the Internet you can still choose what websites to visit.