The movie was about replicants of course, but in the background, the technology shown with the AI being a companion, it was a huge corporate hit, a big seller. In the background you see ad's for it, and they reference it as their most popular product.
And as you say, I'm sure the porn industry will catch on.
Kind of crazy how Porn isn't leading this tech wave like past ones. Maybe because people are scared of tracking?
It's in our nature to crave outside acceptance of who we are. But may be taken to extreme, when we stop being wanting to be challenged at all we could lose touch with reality, society...
The thing is though, LLMs do whatever you tune them to do. If you train them on a sycophantic corporate drone butler dataset, you get the average assistant model that's obviously a bad fit for this use case. If you train them on something else, you get whatever you want, even someone that challenges you. I wouldn't be surprised if having some sort of simulated soulmate partner thing that also does the job of an educator and life guide will be the norm in the future.
Isn't that exactly what you suggest? A paid one-sided relationship that helps people feel better about themselves, with a bit of naughtiness mixed in.
Isn’t that the result of major credit card companies banning certain uses, thus pruning branches from the tree of possible futures ?
What we need is digital central bank money in some form, to get rid of that type of censorship.
I always do a double take when I read such statistics. How can they possibly add up? Are gen Z men considered particularly undesirable leading to lots of relationships with large age gaps? Is there a ridiculously large overhang of gay women (over men)? Is there a huge number of men with multiple partners?
These gender disparities are difficult enough to believe when they come to sexual relations, it gets even harder when talking about relationships.
I guess what I'm saying is: I don't believe those numbers as stated and would be interested in an explanation or at least a source.
From what I can find after a brief search, there's this one [0] that claims 63% for men, 34% for women, and [1] there's a a generally known toxicity around dating these days that makes these numbers entirely believable. I don't pretend to have a large enough network of acquaintances to make a good guess, but hardly anyone I know isn't single, and I know maybe two or three religious types that are actually married.
As for gen Z men being especially undesirable, there's well... [2].
[0] https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2023/02/08/for-valen...
[1] https://old.reddit.com/r/GenZ/comments/1eo9bzj/interesting_b...
[2] https://www.ft.com/content/29fd9b5c-2f35-41bf-9d4c-994db4e12...
Other factor.
As the other post suggested. There are large age gaps. Women date older, men date younger. This is also long known. Does it add up to 60/30? That does seem high, but maybe with every other factor thrown in, it explains it?
Or, you know, are leading women on.
I could certainly invent explanations for them. For example, I can say "no man would date until they've earned enough money to buy a house." This means younger males won't be dating but that doesn't appear to describe the world we live in.
I could say "Every man who dates is dating 2 women" but that also doesn't appear to describe the world we live in.
It is possible, for example, to create a cunning and manipulative schemer that is entirely devoted to mentoring you with no romantic component whatsoever.
While my main use case for LLMs is coding just like most people here, there are lots of areas that are being ignored.
Did you know llama 3.X models have been trained as psychotherapists? It's been invaluable to dump and discuss feelings with it in ways I wouldn't trust any regular person. When real therapists also cost more than what people can afford (and will have you committed if you say the wrong thing), this ends up being a very good option.
And you know how escorts are traditionally known as therapists lite? Yeah, it works in reverse too. The main use case most are sleeping on is, well, emotional porn and erotic role play. Let me explain.
My generation (i.e. Z) doesn't do drugs, we don't drink, we don't go out. Why? Because we can hang on discord, play games, scroll tiktok and goon to our heart's content. 60% of gen Z men are single, 30% women. The loneliness epidemic hit hard along with covid. It's basically a match made in heaven for LLMs that can pretend to love you, like everything about you, ask you about your day, and of course, can sext on a superhuman level. When you're lonely enough, the fact that it's all just simulated doesn't matter one bit.
It's so interesting that the porn industry is usually on the forefront of innovation, adopting blueray and hddvd and whatnot before anyone else, but they're largely asleep on this and so is everyone else who doesn't want to touch of it with a 10ft pole. Well except maybe c.ai to some extent. The business case is there and it's a wide open market that OAI, Anthropic, Google and the rest won't ever stoop down to themselves, so the bar for entry is far lower.
Right now the best experience is known to be heading over to r/locallama by doing it yourself, but there's millions to be made for someone who improves it and figures out a platform to sell it on in the next few years. It can be done well enough with existing properly tuned, open weight, apache licensed LLMs and progress isn't stopping.