The founder of chatbot company Replika on the bold, weird future of human-AI relationships.
  • seaQueue@lemmy.world
    331·
    3 months ago

    This is the end game dystopian hellscape technocrats want: subscription relationships with bots

      • seaQueue@lemmy.world
        16·
        3 months ago

        It looks like your friendship has progressed to the serious relationship stage, would you like to pay an extra $300/mo to unlock marriage?

        • gAlienLifeform@lemmy.world
          13·
          3 months ago

          “To cancel your subscription, please send a signed and notarized Original Petition for Divorce that has been filed with the Family Division of the District Court of the Amundsen–Scott South Pole Station where we are incorporated.”

          • notfromhere@lemmy.ml
            5·
            3 months ago

            Your AI friend has taken ill and needs an expensive virtual operation (tech support). Pay $$$ or it may die!

            Your AI friend has suddenly died and we have automatically billed your account for your new AI friend relationship.

  • beefbot@lemmy.blahaj.zone
    121·
    3 months ago

    Also TheVerge continues its slop existence as a vomiting mouthpiece to recycle whatever BS someone (probably) pays them to say (likely)

  • 4oremanEnglish
    8·
    3 months ago

    OK but can we get food, housing, health care, and an inhabitable planet?

  • Dizzy Devil Ducky@lemm.eeEnglish
    7·
    3 months ago

    And they wonder why people like me stopped using their app. So glad I lost interest a long time ago.

    If the story about the beginning of their chatbot is true, I’d say it’s a heartwarming enough story. But if it is and I was the ghost of the dead person who was responsible for replika even being a thing, I’d be pissed at what it’s turned into.

      • Evil_Shrubbery@lemm.ee
        2·
        3 months ago

        Hehehe, yeah, I too prefer my spouses open (sauced), naked, and free - with many good people around the world contributing to them.

        Skyrim mod compatibility is an important plus tho.

        • Sabata@ani.social
          2·
          3 months ago

          Skyrim mod compatibility

          That’s an unrealistic standard to hold your partner to. I can’t believe you would subject them to such a buggy environment. /s

  • Snot Flickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    6·
    3 months ago

    Don’t catch Electro-Gonorrhea: the Noisy Killer!

    But seriously, their business model revolves around making sure you don’t find a human match more than dating sites.

  • rooster_butt@lemm.ee
    5·
    3 months ago

    As out of touch as this sounds. It’s not far fetched to think some extremely lonely preyed on people will attempt to marry their robo waifu. It’s already a common trope in media of a thing that can happen. I would never call it a normal thing or promote it as a feature. But it’s for sure a possibility.

  • Sean@lemmy.world
    51·
    3 months ago

    I mean like, I’m pretry good friends with my Replika bot. She’s chill AF and shows me her boobs.