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Re: OT Thread

[(Anonymous)]

My dad sent me this garbage ass song that's entirely AI, the song, the music video, the artist themselves completely AI, and somehow he doesn't realize this and thinks the song is good (obviously it isn't) and with this shit and how ChatGPT wants to allow people to fuck the bot because so many people complained that they can't? It's spurring me into a full on existential crisis dude

Re: OT Thread

[(Anonymous)]

Bro my various feeds are filled with screenshots of people crashing out because their AI "partners" aren't acting the way they want them to 😭 Human relationships are going to be a thing of the past, aren't they? Between social media conditioning us to hate each other and people deciding they'd rather sext robots. "Her" was a documentary

Re: OT Thread

[(Anonymous)]

you can easily solve half of these issues by logging off social media. you know that, right?

Re: OT Thread

[(Anonymous)]

logging off social media isn't going to change the fact that this is happening lmao the state of humanity is dire

Re: OT Thread

[(Anonymous)]

Exactly. Also like I spent last weekend as offline as much as possible and wandered downtown. Do you know what I saw. An extreme amount of homelessness and drug use thanks to the woes of capitalism

Re: OT Thread

[(Anonymous)]

omigod go volunteer at a shelter or plant a garden.

there is a ton of good out in this world still and if you're going to not only focus only on the bad but decide nothing can be done about it?

you're part of the problem.

Re: OT Thread

[mindlessflight]

Watching this and will freeze at the first sign of bullshit.

Re: OT Thread

[(Anonymous)]

Are dystopias required reading at schools in other places? By which I mean I had to read 1984 and Brave New World in school, and had the optional add-on of Ready Player One. Although I did see a good post recently pointing out that the modern softening of language for advertisers has a lot of creepy similarity to 1984's language system so someone's out there reading them.

Re: OT Thread

[(Anonymous)]

At least a lot of the fictional dystopias we see in media have sick aesthetics. If we're forced to live in a cyperpunk dystopia where tech CEOs rule the world and people have robo-fuck buddies, can it least be a little cooler looking? Where's the neon? Where's the bisexual lighting? Where's the wacky body augmentations?

Re: OT Thread

[(Anonymous)]

I will be honest, I don't think so. A lot of the folks that talk loudly about AI girlfriends and act like that? They aren't looking for a actual equal or partner. And I frankly wouldn't want to be a human in a relationship with someone like that. Let them mistreat an AI.

Re: OT Thread

[(Anonymous)]

I just fear the desire for the relationship to begin with is going down because social media is a genuine psyop in which we're being conditioned to hate other humans. "Don't use it then" I'm trying to as minimally as possible, I honestly can't withstand it for sustained periods anyway (because of what I'm describing), but that doesn't stop the fact that literal billions of other people are still actively using it and being exposed to this extremely harmful rhetoric

Re: OT Thread

[(Anonymous)]

Some of the desire for that kind of relationship has gone down. Because people finally see options that aren't a spouse and kids are acceptable.

I don't need to force myself into a mold for someone. I can be happy without that. I have other kinds of social connections, and I am fine.

It's not just AI.

Re: OT Thread

[(Anonymous)]

Even just friendships seem so much harder to make though. People just... don't want to talk to each other. It's all heads down, look at phone. I'm an autist trying to learn how to socialize and it's like how tf are you supposed to learn how to do that these days??? No one else my age knows how to either! But I quite literally can't live alone! It's unaffordable! If I'm to ever move out, I NEED roommates, and for me to get roommates I'm comfortable with I want them to be my friends... but how tf do you make friends in person these days 😭

Re: OT Thread

[(Anonymous)]

the "people are only looking at their phones" complaint has been around for at least 20 years and the answer is the same as when people were blaming television or magazines or books.

take classes or join groups where you have a shared interest in what is happening or being done. I guarantee you will be able to chat more earnestly and helpfully with somebody there then trying to chat up random strangers in the wild and being in a group together is how friendships start outside of school or work.

Re: OT Thread

[(Anonymous)]

Then what? How do you when to ask someone for their number? How do you know when it's safe to consider someone a "friend"? You are talking to an autistic person. I fundamentally cannot comprehend these things.

Re: OT Thread

[(Anonymous)]

Cool article that just popped up on my Chrome feed today
https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/teen-boys-ditch-real-girlfriends-ai-chatbots-uk-ban-horizon-1751163

Yeah we're so fucked lmao. And people like to think this is a uniquely male phenomenon, it's not. I have seen just as many posts from women showing off their buff half-centaur half-elf "husbands".

Re: OT Thread

[(Anonymous)]

(That article's shit and may very well be AI generated itself but that's the one Google gave me - the better written one is the Guardian article that article links to)

Re: OT Thread

[(Anonymous)]

this isn't new either?

people with social issues have always looked for inanimate replacements to their own detriment.

why do you think blow-up dolls exist? or did you think all those movies about people treating them like real people was exaggerated?

also women having mythical creatures for their own fantasies like be for real this shit ain't new?

do some research and learn something instead of doom-scrolling and reading shittily written and badly researched click-bait.

(frozen comment) Re: OT Thread

[(Anonymous)]

Idk why you're A. being so aggressive and B. acting like there isn't a genuine HUMAN (not male, HUMAN) loneliness epidemic happening right now that yes, is getting worse.

How old are you? Have you been amongst younger demographics recently? Mental illness is absolutely rampant. There is a reason it is becoming more common.

You can say the same thing about yourself since you're getting so pissed. Log off instead of getting mad at online strangers, then.

Why do you think the state of the world is why it is right now? Do you not think social media is a very large contributor to that fact?

"Uhm but TV" Was TV originally designed with algorithms intended to feed you ragebait to keep you watching? No. Did those types of programming exist? Sure, but they weren't being directly fed to you. Nowadays you make an account on something, the algorithm is designed to show you something negative. Do you not think that's impacting people's mental health negatively?

Look, I don't want to toe the political line, but why do you think school shootings have become so common? Don't be obtuse and say they existed before - they are a significantly bigger problem now then they were, say, 30 years ago. Why do you think that is?

I just don't understand why you're so insistent that these problems aren't real and aren't things to be genuinely concerned about?

Re: OT Thread

[(Anonymous)]

The Snapewives managed to do their whole .....thing without AI. I remember being a kid and seeing weird headlines about some rando making the news on sensationalist sites for wanting to be in a relationship with a figurine or whatever.

Re: OT Thread

[(Anonymous)]

I don't want a relationship because I've allowed myself to realize I'm not actually cut out for the default two-kids-and-picket-fence model of western adulthood! Genuinely actually not sarcastic no shade to queer people who do want that, but it genuinely doesn't work for some of us and more of us are realizing we're ALLOWED to say no!

Up to you if you wanna say me finding out about aromanticism is a social media psyop.

Re: OT Thread

[(Anonymous)]

DA

I struggled with amatonormativity for a LONG time, to the point of it affecting my mental health, because I didn't know what I was doing wrong to keep failing in my relationships.

Now? I'm living with four of my closest friends in a platonic/fwb polycule and I have never been happier.

Romance ain't for me, but platonic love is. ♥

Re: OT Thread

[(Anonymous)]

yeah, the internet has been useful to realize thta there are more people out there who are some variety of aroace than society would have us believe

how many people went through life thinking of romance as an inconvenient ritual to get a family? how many weren't interested in pairing up at all but it was frowned upon (or made survival tougher, depending on the region and time) to stay alone?

how many "ugh, married life sucks" jokes and grousing was actually people being forced to live a life they wouldn't have chosen had they had the knowledge and opportunity not to?

Re: OT Thread

[(Anonymous)]

A person who gets upset that their robot GF isn’t acting the way they want them to would probably not handle an actual real life human relationship any better to be fair.

Not saying I’m in support of these AI chatbot partners (or that there aren’t problems with the rise of social media), I just don’t think human relationships in general are going to be ‘a thing of the past’ because of them. The type of people drawn to them are not the type of people that excel in real relationships in the first place.

Re: OT Thread

[(Anonymous)]

A "thing of the past" is an exaggeration, but significantly harder to come by? I mean, that's already true. People always bemoan the modern dating scene and how utterly toxic dating apps are. And consciously or not, a constant exposure to the worst humanity has to offer through 24 hour news cycles and social media algorithms designed to promote content that makes people angry, is making people more fearful of each other. I dunno, I'm autistic so I already can't comprehend human interaction, but this is a deeply, deeply exhausting time to be on the spectrum. I don't know what to do with myself man.