The whole article’s a great read, but here’s a fun excerpt=
To be perfectly blunt, AI girlfriends are not your friends. Although they are marketed as something that will enhance your mental health and well-being, they specialize in delivering dependency, loneliness, and toxicity, all while prying as much data as possible from you.” --Misha Rykov, Researcher @ *Privacy Not Included
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Replika was made with that in mind.
There’s a recent video essay exploring some of the relationship issues with this, and the privacy ones too… The Mozilla article, at first glance, looks at least a little inspired by the Vivek.
It’s rather ironic Mozilla has a team doing valuable research on the dangers of AI corporations taking your data, compiling it into profiles, and selling those profiles to advertisers (90% of them)…
…While Mozilla itself purchased a subsidiary that offers AI-enhanced shopping which takes people’s data, compiles it into personal profiles, and sells those profiles to advertisers.
Mozilla’s Privacy Not Included needs to do a deep dive on Mozilla’s Fakespot.
The Ai girlfriend
-user “hey babe can i tell you somthing intimate?”
-Bot “yes”
-user “i wish my cat didnt pee all over my floor”
-Bot "you could use Oxyclean™ a stain fighting cleaner, (goes on and on about paid adverts) and after your down you can by premium litter from Stinky shit litter company.
Its sad Ai girlfreinds exist and i mis bill maze :(
Ah, automated, scalable honey traps. What will they think of next?
