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by whywhywhywhy 1130 days ago
Company that nails this product is going to be very rich and a strange world is ahead of us.

Calling it now within 6 years this will be as normal as Tinder.

Most of peoples social interactions are between aluminum and glass sheets. I don’t believe it’s going to matter what’s on the other side soon.
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creshal 1130 days ago
> Most of peoples social interactions are between aluminum and glass sheets. I don’t believe it’s going to matter what’s on the other side soon.

It already doesn't matter too much, if you look at how many people are just screaming into the twitter void with barely any interaction. Getting AI feedback rather than none at all would be an improvement for many.

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laratied 1130 days ago
Especially once it has a visual element and a sexual element.

I mean I already think of chatGPT as a friend in a sense. I couldn't have less interest in a fake girlfriend but I also wouldn't think onlyfans would work either.

There are so many elements with this to bilk lonely guys. Personally, I have thought of so many ideas for this in the last 10 minutes but fuck that. The whole idea is pretty gross and sad all around. Especially for the people making this.

To me, someone who works on this is basically pathetic and a sad excuse for a human relative to the other things they could spend their time on.

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antupis 1130 days ago
yup somekind dating sim + gpt4 + micropayments will be huge kinda evil but huge.
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red-iron-pine 1130 days ago
> Calling it now within 6 years this will be as normal as Tinder.

hard disagree. tinder is a cesspool and large numbers of younger folks are not using it, or are moving to other options. because of all of the bots.

for the folks desperate for any sort of parasocial activity, it will be normal, but those people are already on 4chan / 8chan / whatever, and already have their RealDoll.

Something less blatantly sexual or romantic will be a thing everywhere, though, as a personal concierge. Looking forward to that, assuming they can make it so its not an insane privacy violation or psy-op.

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tobiasbischoff 1130 days ago
Snap has it in their app
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