I had the same thought. Unfortunately, I think males are the ones in an epidemic of loneliness. Girls have easy options for immediate companionship - just jump on any dating app and swipe right once. That said, it’s the same guys hooking up with pretty much all the girls so certainly they are also desiring deeper, real connection.
Anyway. Good idea, but no way I’m messaging this thing on Telegram.
This ignores the very significant potential risks to personal safety which are simply much higher for women meeting new potential partners than for men. In addition to the stated distinction between companionship and casual coupling.
At least right now an AI bot can't
- pretend emotional investment to get sex
- lose its shit and harass you over message and at work when the relationship ends
- pressure you into coming over after meeting for coffee and repeatedly insist around you declining
- demand nudes and pout/manipulate if they don't get them
- anything else in the big bag of tricks any women in your circle could tell you about that requires being a thinking, communicating human being with the capacity for manipulation and selfishness
I've seen smarmy remarks online by men who seem convinced that AI girlfriends will really show these human women what's what, and we'll be so upset about the competition. No, please, if there was a digital resource toxic people could demand companionship from instead that might save the rest of us from it.
Of course, until an AI bot can also do the dishes and the laundry, I don't think they'll be much competition to the relationships those sorts of men seek with women.
> I think males are the ones in an epidemic of loneliness.
I think that this sort of thing is more likely to make loneliness worse, not better.
> Girls have easy options for immediate companionship - just jump on any dating app and swipe right once.
What? I suppose so, if what you're thinking of is just hooking up without concern for partner quality. If, however, what they want is an actual companion, it's no easier for women than for men (and I've heard many women make persuasive cases that it's harder for women.)
I've heard several different complaints, but probably the most common one is that it's hard for women to find compatible men who are interested in real relationships. Most men seem to just want hookups, not taking the time needed to build something with substance.
This isn't a complaint I hear men make about women.
Gender is a construct; if Annie wants to be a boy, it's still a sexless robot. To me, the funny thing about these things is that Annie isn't just "your" girlfriend, it's anybody's girlfriend. Is that what people want?
Constructs are constructed, in one way or another way and each construct is different from another construct constructed using different ruleset.
It doesn't matter if you think that gender is innate, fixed, immutable, strictly binary, mandated by god, or socially acquired, fluid, in a spectrum: if you designed a machine to act as a representative of some definition of a gender it will act like that, unless you also teach it to be fluid and able to adapt to your wishes. What machines do or can do is independent from what humans do or can do because we are just been constructed differently
> if you designed a machine to act as a representative of some definition of a gender it will act like that, unless you also teach it to be fluid and able to adapt to your wishes
This is incredibly far removed from how LLMs actually work. Part of me is tempted to accept the challenge you've laid down (intentionally or not), and attempt to convince "Annie" here that despite its creator's intent, it is actually a boy. Given my experience with prompt injection, this should be trivial. The other part of me doesn't care enough to follow through on installing telegram much less interact with a bot over it.
You may well be right about LLMs but if they can be adapted to match you're expectations about gender says something about how LLM works and not necessarily about how humans work
My point is that the two things and not strictly related and you cannot make conclusions about humans just because you know something about LLMs or the converse. Since concepts like gender are to be understood within a context of humans I find sentences like "since gender is a social construct in humans then it follows that it must be a social construct in LLMs and necessarily easily changeable" to be fallacious logic
Anyway. Good idea, but no way I’m messaging this thing on Telegram.