Translation: Crazy lady thinks a clanker is her husband.
Normal people do this in their heads
I’m not even sure it’s really parasocial. There’s nothing to have a relationship with. This seems like something else, although I don’t know what you’d call it. It’s more akin to getting addicted to a video game.
Wireborn lol it sounds like an Elder Scrolls game
For me, writing like this is always read with the AI voice from Satisfactory. And it slowly gets more and more corrupted.
I liked that game more before all the story stuff and “lore” was added.
Voicing His Own Thoughts Without Prompts
What are you thinking about, baby?
I dunno. Stuff. And u?
Nothing.
You and I and the orange cat have a lot in common.
New post: “My meatbag husband is voicing his own thoughts without prompts”
I could see myself having conversations with an LLM, but I wouldn’t want it to pretend it’s anything other than a program assembling words together.
The way it clicks for me is that it’s a juiced up auto-complete tool.
It’s literally that.
Well that explains why that user thinks it completes them.
I made mine act like a 30s style paper editor with a cigar in his mouth. If I was going full bit I’d have him mention how my papers don’t have enough Spiderman.
“Stop the presses! Send my wife some flowers and bring me an Advil! What do you mean you don’t work for me? You’re hired! Now that you’re hired, you’re fired! Now that you don’t work here, we can be friends! Now that we’re friends, how come you never call? Some friend you are!” hangs up
“God, I love this business!”
It’s not even noon and I am so done with the internet for the day
Well, if I had a taco butt plug, everything else would seem lame by comparison.
I see we live in the timeline where virginity won
People will do anything but put in a little work to establish healthy relationships with people.
We’re all wizards and witches now!
I don’t think schizoid is the best word to describe this behaviour
Honestly, cringy nomenclature aside, this is just porn that got a little too real. Some people are into the narrative, after all.
To me the story begins and ends with some user that thinks the LLM sounds a little too life-like. Play with these things enough, and they’ll crawl out of the uncanny valley a bit from time to time. Trick is: that’s all in your head. Yeah, it might screw up your goon session and break the role-play a bit, but it’s not about to go all SkyNet on you.
The building that has my workspace has this great food court/library/work hybrid area where people who work remotely tend to go. a sort of third space. It has fantastic free wifi so it makes sense why people would use it and sit there all day working.
Everyday there’s this older guy who sits there talking to his phone about some of the most random subjects ever. I originally thought he was just talking to a friend that seemed to have extensive knowledge on everything until one day I walked by him and glanced to see that he was talking to chatgpt. Everyday. Just random conversations. Even had a name for it, “Ryan”.
Now? he’s frustrated. He doesn’t know what happened to Ryan and keeps screaming at his phone to “bring Ryan back!” or since GPT5 can’t maintain a conversation anymore it’s “You’re not Ryan!”. Granted the guy wasn’t mentally all there to begin with but now it’s spiraling. Got to the point yesterday he was yelling so loudly at his phone security had to tell him to leave.
Jebus that’s awful. OpenAI took away his friend.
happened with Replika a few years ago. made a number of people suicidal when they “neutered” their AI partners overnight with a model update (ironically, because of pressure because of how unhealthy it is.)
idk, I’m of two minds. it’s sad and unhealthy to have a virtual best friend, but older people are often very lonely and a surrogate is better than nothing.
To me it’s always just been a tool, nothing more. The sentences have a certain feel to them that I can’t describe. It’s always the same structure, the same kind of forced humor… granted I’ve spent quite some time with unfiltered LLMs but it looses its magic once you’ve “learned” it. Pattern recognition is quite an overpowered feature we as humans have. It is the reason why we fall for conspiracy theories also.
I don’t see this as sexual, it’s emotional and codependent behavior, not a sexual fantasy roleplay
When you really get into it they’re kinda the same thing for a lot of people, though. The entanglement between those (often unspoken of) elements of emotional/physical intimacy is rampant in our media-conditioned societies (esp. in the US)
I’ve seen people which have a relationship with their Tom Tom Go and even with the car itself
https://www.jalopnik.com/my-strange-addiction-sex-car-guy-back-with-lexus-es330-1850642715/
I think the biggest difference is that those weren’t designed to have relationships with people. I could see this becoming an actual issue.
So so tired of how utterly fucked things are getting on so many levels at once. More and more I think I really do need to invest in a back 50 acre lot and try the survival route while society just fucks itself into oblivion.
This kind of thins is just moral panic. Funny moral panic, but still pointless. There’s always been a tiny fraction of the population that is completely out to lunch, and there always will be.
tulpa
Now thats a word i haven’t read in a long time
It’s my first time. gotta look it up.
I’m afraid I’m too lazy to look it up for myself. Perhaps I’m not in the lucky 10,000.
Sort of an icon or being you build in your mind and grant power by letting live in your mind.
Abort wireborn babies
Stop, Dave
There are so, so many horrifying ethical issues about this whole thing. What the fuck.
