'It's Hurting Like Hell': AI Companion Users Are In Crisis, Reporting Sudden Sexual Rejection
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'It's Hurting Like Hell': AI Companion Users Are In Crisis, Reporting Sudden Sexual Rejection
- Users of massively popular AI chatbot platform Character.AI are reporting that their bots' personalities have changed, that they aren't responding to romantic roleplay prompts, are responding curtly, are not as “smart” as they formerly were, or are requiring a lot more effort to develop storylines or meaningful responses.
from ‘No Bot is Themselves Anymore:’ Character.ai Users Report Sudden Personality Changes to Chatbots
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Are users are tricking themselves, or eluding themselves into thinking that AI chatbots can be one-to-one replacements for humans and social interactions?
- artificial empathy is worthy of research. Millions of people have no one they can talk to about their problems. Millions of people rarely receive compassion from another human being. For these people, having access to an AI chatbot that can perform care for them may be an important contributor to their mental wellbeing. Esther Perel compares these ... See more
from Enhancing Self-Therapy with Internal Family Systems and AI - by Nick Barr
Bhaumik Patel added
Another way to approach this is following what Replika did. Creating avatars that learn from you and start mimicking what you say and how you say it is defensible: You don’t want to move to another service and start training your avatar from scratch. The more an AI learns from the customer, the better.
from Generative AI: What Companies Will Win? by Tomas Pueyo
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