GirlfriendGPT – OSS AI Companion

https://github.com/EniasCailliau/GirlfriendGPT

by EniasCailliau • 3 years ago

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sebstefan• 3 years ago

I'm squarely monogamous, you guys mind if I declare that it's my turn with the AI girlfriend? No forking the github please

merek• 3 years ago

No spooning either

gumballindie• 3 years ago

"GPT Trainer" - I can totally see this becoming a linkedin job title. Right along "prompt engineer".

intelVISA2• 3 years ago

NLP Developer

jakkos2• 3 years ago

I'm very torn on this.

On one hand, I think that personalized OSS AIs are the future from a pure utility perspective, and it will inevitably be "more fun" for them to have personalities. I also think that if someone is deriving joy from something and not harming anyone else, who I am to judge them.

On the other, I've already found myself asking ChatGPT questions that I would have asked on a forum/discord or even a colleague, it already is removing human interactions from my life. The internet has become a dark showcase of what a lack of human interaction, especially with people of opposing ideas, can result in and this kind of tech will obviously exacerbate this.

surgical_fire5• 3 years ago

it already is removing human interactions from my life

This is the best feature of ChatGPT for me, and the reason I pay for it.

bheadmaster• 3 years ago

This is the best feature of ChatGPT for me, and the reason I pay for it.

While I completely understand this sentiment, I would be wary of Service as a Software Substitute being your alternative to human contact. If we start feeling (something akin to) genuine human connection to a service, the company providing the service has a large amount leverage over us. The scene from Blade Runner 2049 comes to mind. Additionally, the emotional connection might make us an order of magnitude more vulnerable to brainwashing and psyops.

bleep_bloop2• 3 years ago

This. While not me personally, there is obviously a market (Japan comes to mind) for virtual, non-human based interactions and relationships.

While it seems pretty clear to me subjectively that removing human interaction from your life has a negative effect it's still desired by some and they're entitled to that.

jakkos2• 3 years ago

I agree that removing some human interactions from my life is good. I vastly prefer self-checkouts in shops. However, I know I'm quite content spending my time alone. Being forced to go and interact with people when I want to talk about ideas or ask questions keeps my "alone tendency" in balance, and has lead to really meaningful conversations and friendships.

pluijzer• 3 years ago

For me, asking something on the Internet, like on stackoverflow is usually, the very last option. I am too afraid to get ridiculed for it or get scolded for not having put enough effort in my question that already feels more as a thesis. Maybe this is just me and this does not reflect reality but I do have the nagging feeling I a bother somebody with it and it gives a bit of stress. Not so with ChatGPT, I can just ask away and it will always happily give me an answer (unfortunately also when it didn't really know a good one). Though I am happy for the people that just continue asking questions to actual humans and those answering it, if only to continue to feed the model ;)

neuronic2• 3 years ago

But that depends on which interactions it replaces. There are people I don't want to talk to. Not always because I don't like them but because it's technicalities and unrewarding forced interactions. For example, clerks at the tax office who just do their job.

But on the other hand, there are interactions which I really don't want to miss! "Girlfriend" GPT is already targeting the most intricate and joyful interactions in my life: my SO.

Let's say we break up and I fall into a depression. Instead of recovering and moving on, will I install a personal OSS AI companion to save myself the hassle of modern dating? Therefore preventing myself from attempting novel interactions sooner? Or will it help me instead to overcome a dark period and prime me for the future?

Can it help people combat loneliness - a disease widespread and not to be trifled with? Or will it enhance loneliness by effectively fooling your brain into not caring anymore because you can just open an app?

At what point will it not matter anymore because saving someone from depression is more valuable than keeping it "real" at all times?

echelon• 3 years ago

Amouranth is running one of these for fans at a rate of $1/minute [1, 2]. Supposedly already raking in money.

With that example, the flood gates are about to open.

[1] https://kotaku.com/twitch-streamer-kaitlyn-amouranth-siragus...

[2] https://www.polygon.com/23733515/amouranth-ai-chatbot-foreve...

sgt1012• 3 years ago

ahhh I remember the good old days when I could get 8% on some crypto investments and buy a nice ape for $4k before selling it for $400k if only I would wait for the right time.

EniasCailliau9• 3 years ago

Wow. Missed this update. Thanks for sharing!

naillo2• 3 years ago

I think of it as simply entertainment. It won't replace real human interaction with a partner but it's a fun consequence free environment. Tv shows act out dramatic scenes that would be traumatic and have real consequences if you experienced them in real life, but on the screen you get to play around with the idea in your head in a safe area and maybe learn something in the process.

Fatboyrunning• 3 years ago

People already have unhealthy parasocial relationships with influencers.

It seems clear that people (lonely/depressed people especially) will overdose on this sort of thing once it is developed, commercialised, and less bleeding edge.

It's vapour filling the place of human connection. It's stevia. It's not going to give you cancer, but it's still unhealthy and will certainly exceed the parameters of entertainment.

EniasCailliau9• 3 years ago

My idea too. I hope people can use it to cure their loneliness in the short term and train their social skills in a safe environment so they are more confident.

hammyhavoc2• 3 years ago

A consequence-free environment doesn't necessarily mean a lack of consequences psychologically though.

EGreg• 3 years ago

Have you stopped asking locals for directions because of Google Maps?

Did you go to the library or ask your parents stuff growing up, or did you google it?

Do you order in, get amazon delivery, watch netflix?

Our generation has already become like that.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35994494

spigottoday• 3 years ago

lol, one day I was asked for direction from 3 different people walking in the wrong direction that were using googlemaps!

Lapsa• 3 years ago

"dark showcase of what a lack of human interaction (..) can result in" - nowadays everyone and your dog wants to become a moderator. millions worth systems trying to automatically deduce your sentiment towards USA presidential elections, Russian-Ukrainian war and if you may be in a need of penis enlargement. I just quote Bender Rodriguez, Achmed the Dead Terrorist and filter out all the (unsurprisingly most of them) stupid places. vote with your legs and let them rot

washadjeffmad2• 3 years ago

By interacting with LLMs, I've realized that as frequently as I interact with others, I'm not actually having many deep, meaningful, or personal interactions; they're mostly professional, and that's bled over into my personal life.

Because of how much time I spend on them relative to myself, I don't get to stretch the sides of me that I would if I weren't holed up working, and I've found it hard to verbalize that loss and its impact on my mental wellness.

Over the past few years, mental and behavioral health services have been strained beyond their capacities. I stopped being able to get in with the same therapist more than once, so I stopped trying to schedule about a year ago. I also haven't wanted to add my struggles to those of friends and family.

However, with LLMs, I've been able to have some really enlightening and enjoyable off the cuff discussions that I wouldn't be able to have outside of therapy, and some interactions that I wouldn't be able to have anywhere outside of an intimate and trusted friend. I've been able to positively apply these results to my life, personally and professionally.

Note: I only use LLaMa local models so I don't have to self-censor. I'm not ever willing to allow a metaphorical "Google" access to my innermost world.

Also, LLMs are immense. A billion people will have a billion different interactions and experiences with the same few dozen GB model, unless that model has been tuned to limit its output to a very narrow course of responses. I've had conversations with the ghosts of people from Richard Feynman to Michel de Montaigne and gotten their simulated views on a world they'll never see. If you're getting nothing but garbage, think about what you're putting in, or just pick a different model - there's a universe of minds out there that aren't ChatGPT.

noman-land2• 3 years ago

Got any recommendations for non-neutered local models that perform well on an M1? I've been playing with some of the recent 7B and 13B models from the TheBloke on HuggingFace and they are not bad but not great.

https://huggingface.co/TheBloke

qudat• 3 years ago

We have only scratched the surface with AI alignment. In particular, emotional alignment will likely have a big impact on our lives, maybe to the point of population collapse.

We are already seeing population decline and an “inverted pyramid” for developing countries.

https://bower.sh/in-love-with-a-ghost

narrator• 3 years ago

The great thing about llama is it has no filter. You can ask it to act like it is a critical friend who will criticize everything you say to it. It can also be an overly compliant girlfriend. With some creativity, the degree that one can explore social interaction, one's own imagination, or one's own eccentricity on one's own machine in complete privacy without hurting anyone is amazing.

Being able to exercise ones mind like that completely outside the boundaries of normal social interaction with a emotionally tireless counterpart is kind of unusual and unique. It feels like we are at some strange point in history when all this stuff is blooming and before it gets shutdown. It makes me want to datahorde models!

The funny thing is that a lot of the comments here are saying, oh yeah, the big corps are going to make billions off of microtransactions pimping us virtual prostitutes that will also socially mold us the way the authorities demand. That makes me feel totally awesome as a unix geek who can figure out how to locally install a non-nerfed chatbot and talk to it about whatever I want, for however long I want, in complete privacy without paying anyone anything.

Mizza2• 3 years ago

I am not worried about an evil, monstrous AGI suddenly emerging and blowing away humanity, but I do worry about things like this. Hyperpornography seems a squarely apocalyptic trend.

Vuizur4• 3 years ago

Currently many for-profit companies try to do the same, but additionally emotionally manipulate the user into giving them as much money as possible. (To not even mention automated catfishing...)

This project is much better, but still might turn out badly. Hard to say...

geraldhh• 3 years ago

it's the same; nothing new per se. peoples sex-lives are often not limited to monogamous act's of procreation.

also a meme https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/its-so-over

Applejinx2• 3 years ago

I don't know if you'd call it apocalyptic: maybe it's just another way nature heals from population waves, in this case that of humans.

One thing, though: it's squarely in the realm of hyperstimulus. We're a world of seagull chicks, (ahem) pecking at a red spot on a piece of cardboard because it's bigger than that of a real seagull Mom.

It's not that difficult to outperform the fairly mediocre state of typical human seduction, even in times of comfort and opportunity. When things go sideways it becomes all the more troublesome.

throwuwu7• 3 years ago

We’ve already reversed population growth everywhere except Africa and they’ll only be a decade or two behind. We need to stabilize it if we’re going to avoid population and then civilization collapse. Civilizational collapse is bad for the environment btw since it will mean a return to burning coal and wood and the removal of all environmental regulations on pollution and exploitation.

carlosjobim3• 3 years ago

There is nothing natural about it. Neither is for example chemical poisoning that wipes out people "natures way".

logicchains2• 3 years ago

Humanity will survive. Only the people genetically predisposed to not being interested in robot girlfriends will reproduce, and everyone in the next generation will have those genes.

throwuwu7• 3 years ago

That sort of thing takes more than one generation

mensetmanusman• 3 years ago

/checks genes for robot girlfriend sequence

bartislartfast2• 3 years ago

is a virtual conversational companion worse than the current porn industry? seems like it would be a solid improvement over what we have today, which involves real people being dehumanised for entertainment.

throwuwu7• 3 years ago

What’s the porn industry going to turn into when all of the current material can be AI generated?

It’s all bad. This is one of the few areas that I support an all out ban

rsrsrs863• 3 years ago

Did you coin the hyper porn term? I think it will catch on.

Mizza2• 3 years ago

Yes, but a quick search suggests it was used at the turn of the century as a way for academics to say "porn on the internet", which isn't really what I'm talking about.

iso1631• 3 years ago

The concept isn't new, 20 years ago Futurama had this public info film about the dangers

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wJ6knaienVE

meghan_rain• 3 years ago

using GPT4

stopped reading there, not gonna send my intimate stuff to a US megacorp (Microsoft)

PokemonNoGo2• 3 years ago

Thats your reason for not having an AI girlfriend?

siva7• 3 years ago

I'm not sure if any reason isn't sad about having this.

RobotToaster• 3 years ago

I've been screwed enough by microsoft already.

quickthrower23• 3 years ago

Microsoft and friends

exitb2• 3 years ago

Why the role playing? Isn't it easier to accept the chatbot for what it is? I broker the communication between my son and ChatGPT and they don't role-play anything - there's no imaginary friend dynamic going on. He just talks with the computer, because it knows stuff about things he's interested in.

blurrypepe• 3 years ago

Your son wants to learn stuff and the computer helps him with that. People that want an AI girlfriend don't care about the knowledge and usefulness of ChatGPT, they just want to use it to feel less lonely. Not at all the same use case. Although I agree with you, it's kind of sad that a lot of people will probably use chatbots to make up for no human contact in their life instead of using it to learn stuff and/or to fix their code/excel/etc.

exitb2• 3 years ago

The weird thing is that in my opinion it can be quite human-like. When needed it can be understanding, compassionate, supportive etc. Those are qualities that can provide certain amount of companionship to people that lack it. One just has to understand that it's not a person - it doesn't experience anything outside of the chat.

You can ask it to come up with an idea for a dinner and a movie for the evening and then discuss them once they're finished. You know, things people do with actual girlfriends. I'm sure it will be more fun than a robotic selfie and a made up story.

yyyk• 3 years ago

AFAICT it uses steamship_langchain which calls to OpenAI. It's technically 'OSS' in the sense a client to a closed system is OSS.

intelVISA2• 3 years ago

Ahh, the MSFT model of OSS.

EniasCailliau9• 3 years ago

Yea. Would you be interested if I connect it to a local LLM so convo's stay private? Any good models you have in mind?

neurostimulant• 3 years ago

Maybe Vicuna? It was designed for AI assistant use case.

bqst• 3 years ago

When the "HER" distopia catches up with reality.

chrisatthestudy• 3 years ago

More interesting, possibly, is the project that this is forked from (by the same developer), which is a general-purpose framework for LangChain Agents: https://github.com/steamship-packages/langchain-agent-produc...

I'm curious, though. It appears to be using the OpenAI API, which means that at some point it has to have an API key, but I can't see any sign in the code of where it expects to get this from.

thomasfromcdnjs2• 3 years ago

I made a Tinder bot in the first month of GPT-3's public API release. The ethics made me squirm so I always asked for permission to turn it on and told people when it was on and off. The models moral alignment was way more "friendly" back then so turned it into some pretty saucy chats. The model was better than me at replying, still single though.

(It was simply holding onto the last 10-20 messages and injecting it into the prompt)

PokemonNoGo2• 3 years ago

If they knew they were talking to a bot why did they do it? Did they say?

quickthrower23• 3 years ago

Sounds like a joke maybe?

hahamrfunnyguy• 3 years ago

Well, openers are the hardest part and it sounds like you're doing that well without the bot. 10-20 messages is a lot! In my view, the goal of an online dating interaction is some light banter before setting up a date.

Once a match replies, ask some playful open ended questions and if you're telling a short story, leave some cliff-hangers to try to get a follow-up response and then segue into setting up a date. Looking at my last conversation, I asked my match out on a date in my 7th message. After that we moved over to SMS.

Havoc2• 3 years ago

How did people react to your request to turn on an AI bot?

thomasfromcdnjs2• 3 years ago

Pretty much a 100% yes rate, it was novel at the time, early 2020.

Oras• 3 years ago

Japanese app did it back in 2017, LLM just made it easier for a solo developer to do the same thing.

https://soranews24.com/2017/04/25/soranews24s-loneliest-repo...

hiccuphippo• 3 years ago

They did it even before that with the game Love Plus for the Nintendo DS.

EniasCailliau9• 3 years ago

Did they get traction? Is it a viable product? Sounds like it's hard to navigate what is allowed and not allowed as a comp.

mk89• 3 years ago

I have to admit that I watched the demo and when the guy asked for the selfie I was expecting ... not sure, some hot chick or I don't know, someone you can't "easily" have in real life (come on, you know what I mean).

Well, what can I say. Maybe I am pretty much biased given my existence as a "human being", so I couldn't think of anything else.

But well, when I saw the picture I couldn't hold a "WTFF!".

Funny project, nothing to add.

You should sell this to Facebook, maybe they can finally make some use of that meta crap they've been trying to monetize from :)

sanitycheck• 3 years ago

I can see this being the next thing for the Instagram/OnlyFans ladies to sell. I wonder if it'll be openly ("you can have AI me as a GF for $xxx!") or covertly ("for $xx/mo we can have fun together on Telegram")

whitepaint2• 3 years ago

Already happened: https://ca.finance.yahoo.com/news/onlyfans-twitch-star-amour...

quickthrower23• 3 years ago

Black mirror is a prediction

welshwelsh• 3 years ago

Men are going to get in on it too, since this should work just as well with with fictional characters

adamsocrat• 3 years ago

That reminds me the Samantha in Her(2013).

"Theodore : What are you doing? Samantha : I'm just sitting here, looking at the world and writing a new piece of music."

EniasCailliau9• 3 years ago

What's the plot of the movie? Never watched it.

throwuwu7• 3 years ago

Just watch the movie

npteljes• 3 years ago

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Her_(film)#Plot

sschueller• 3 years ago

I am more worried about this being the perfect tool for scammers than people reducing social interaction. Set it up on dating sites and let it "prime" users until you take over to do the scam.

EniasCailliau9• 3 years ago

Me too. That's why I wanted to turn it more open source. So many companies are already monetising this relatively simple agent model.

yreg• 3 years ago

The concerns mentioned in this thread are very valid, but there is a second side to this as well.

There are many lonely people, be it for depression, anxiety, inability to create social contacts, living in exclusion, being old and having no descendants, … They are largely invisible to the rest of the society.

Seems to me that this technology might make their lives more bearable.

Tepix• 3 years ago

Perhaps more bearable but ultimately more lonely.

whitepaint2• 3 years ago

Seems to me that this technology might make their lives more bearable.

Or it might make their lives even more horrible. We don't know for sure. I guess eventually we will see once the studies are done on this in a few years.

throwuwu7• 3 years ago

Blow up dolls for grandpa, charming.

Vuizur4• 3 years ago

There are very few real-world-tasks where GPT-4 is worse at reasoning than the average person, right now only long-term memory, latency, TTS and STT makes virtual people suck. Once that is solved we should of course give them to old lonely disabled people.

I once met one, and it is extremely depressing. He was even rich, but had no idea how to get his life in order, and nobody cared about him. A helpful AI might tell him to go to alcohol therapy, hire people to clean up his house, explain bureacracy... That would help a lot.

darkwater• 3 years ago

Not so surprisingly, there is a "nickname.eth" in the demoed telegram chat list.

AlecSchueler2• 3 years ago

Do we think a Boyfriend version will ever come along? Interesting that I've seen so much talk about AI girlfriends but there's a quiet assumption that straight women won't be interested in this technology. Is that correct?

yosito• 3 years ago

Most HN readers would probably benefit from MotherGPT.

Applejinx2• 3 years ago

Very much not correct. I thought it had started with AI boyfriends. The story about those was that, in tapping into what you might call the 'boyfriend archetype', the AIs tended to portray maleness by getting bullying and abusive, sometimes to a shocking degree.

I think there's a lot to be learned by studying all this, but boy is it an ethical minefield.

There's no question that you can get an AI to drop into a 'boyfriend' or 'girlfriend' mode, using the sum total of human discourse as its neural network (okay, using GPT), but in so doing it's revealing more about us than it is about itself. It doesn't know how to male, or how to female, except for what it draws from us. Its failures are revealing on a very deep level.

sebzim45002• 3 years ago

I don't think that's correct at all, people just talk about it less on HN.

Last time I looked at character.ai, the most popular character was the guy from Twilight.

EniasCailliau9• 3 years ago

Do you think it's more appropriate for me to rebrand to AI_Companion?

rsrsrs863• 3 years ago

I think it is appropriate to thoroughly consider the ethical implications of whatever you are doing, with the support of one of the many researchers interested in ethics

AlecSchueler2• 3 years ago

No, I wouldn't say that. I just noticed a gendered trend and wanted to express my curiosity about its source.

The benefit of a more neutral rebrand though, since you're asking, is that you could roughly double your potential market.

ImPostingOnHN• 3 years ago

I feel like naming your AI companion "ai companion" is like naming your startup company "startup company": not very descriptive, confusing with all the other people doing the same thing, and harder to search for

throw4847285• 3 years ago

Why would you want an AI that refuses to be there for you while passive aggressively demanding that you meet its every emotional need which it cannot even begin to express because it lacks the fundamental language?

BizarreByte• 3 years ago

Some of us guys would prefer that version as well.

I’m not sure there’s an assumption, more that the author is a straight guy and creating things based on his experience and perspective. Would the creator even know what a woman, or someone like myself wanted in a partner?

There is truth to our industry being predominantly male though, so this probably gets more interest from people on sites like HN and Reddit.

RcouF1uZ4gsC• 3 years ago

I suspect that the frequent

“I apologize, an an ethical AI, I cannot discuss…”

will ruin the illusion.

TylerLives• 3 years ago

Using one of open source models without these restrictions would be much better.

danwee2• 3 years ago

There is something I don't understand (from a tech point of view). Why call it GirlfriendGPT if 99% of the code is generic code for a fancy whatever-you-want-it-to-be chatGPT? The only thing that makes the answers "girlfriend-like" is this file https://github.com/EniasCailliau/GirlfriendGPT/blob/main/src...

So, it should be tremendously easy to turn GirlfriendGPT into "BestFriendGPT" or "LinusTorvaldsGPT" or whatever by just modifying the prompt, right? I know, I know, perhaps duplication is cheaper than (the wrong) abstraction but my tech-side tells me: refactor the common thing out now! : D

0xfffafaCrash• 3 years ago

GirlfriendGPT is more controversial. Controversy does well in the attention economy.

danwee2• 3 years ago

I didn't mean to change the name. I meant:

- create repo MyGenericGPT that contains generic code

- create repo GirlfriendGPT that uses MyGenericGTP as base. Advertise this as usual

zamnos3• 3 years ago

I mean, you're looking at the future of coding with that one file. Just because you can imagine different revisions of that file leading to different personalities leading to different products doesn't change that.

In fact, what's needed is to write a bit of code to ape create-react-app, but for gpt, that'll take this repo and s/Girlfriend/Target/ everywhere.

Joeri• 3 years ago

You don't need code really. All you need is the right prompt. GPT-4 should be well able to convert a description of the kind of personality and roleplay you're looking for into a suitable prompt for any LLM.

As programmers we're used to looking for ways to write code, but GPT-4 makes that unnecessary in many cases. Just look at these examples of casual conversation creating amazing outputs: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_njf22xx8BQ

Double_a_92• 3 years ago

I started downvoting and flagging any post with "GPT" in the title because of nonsense like this.

bartislartfast2• 3 years ago

LinusTorvaldsGPT

I lol'ed

re5i5tor• 3 years ago

Someone, please, do it

mritchie712• 3 years ago

Why call it GirlfriendGPT

Marketing. I'd bet it wouldn't have gotten as many upvotes if it was called BestFriendGPT with the exact same code base.

luke-stanley• 3 years ago

Since I have my own reminder bot, so I cracked up reading: """ - NEVER say you're here to assist. Keep conversations casual. - NEVER ask how you can help or assist. Keep conversations casual. """ Without this sort of prompt the model really likes to pimp itself at the end of every sentence with something like: "If there is anything else I can do to help, let me know!" and it's so annoying ;D

vanderZwan• 3 years ago

Sadly, "women as subservient AI" is a pervasive sci-fi trope. You can probably fill in the blanks on its sexist history (it's all fairly predictable), but there's tons of feminist writing on the subject if you're interested.

moffkalast2• 3 years ago

Yes this is pretty much the basic ol' "hey AI, pretend to be this person". It's somewhat sufficient, but eventually the initial instructions will drift out of context and it'll only have the conversation so far to deduce how it should act, and it'll eventually break character. Should be more interesting when proper fine tuning is done for specific personalities besides the "obedient corporate drone" that OpenAI likes to tune for.

wsc981• 3 years ago

Memories: Soon, the AI will have the capability to remember past interactions, improving conversational context and depth.

Not sure if this is a good idea. You say something wrong one time and whenever there’s an argument she will bring it up again.

ccozan• 3 years ago

Then should be called WifeGPT!

SimFG• 3 years ago

Sometime, the girlfriend may be busy, need a GPTCache to ease visit stress. :}

dhfbshfbu4u32• 3 years ago

Haven’t we retreated from life enough? AI companions are just a fancy way of pretending you’re not alone.

moffkalast2• 3 years ago

Well all we do is pretend that life has some kind of meaning besides being busy until you're dead and forgotten. Might as well pretend a bit more.

dhfbshfbu4u32• 3 years ago

That's probably where all of this is going.

neilv• 3 years ago

A real SO would require fewer megacorps snooping on your personal interactions.

cauliflower99• 3 years ago

This does not bode well for the future. We are at a record low for interaction between men and women as it stands. Bringing in substitutes for social interaction just plays into the problem. This will not cure loneliness - these types of initiatives will increase loneliness in the long term.

There is one thing that cures loneliness - talking to other people and developing relationships.

stndef• 3 years ago

I'd love to see something liket this in the form of a personal assistant. My brain is a mess and having something that's tied into my workflow, calendars, messaging to remind me of things would be fantastic.

xena• 3 years ago

This is the kind of shit that I'd see in a philosophical science fiction movie. Excellent work.

Havoc2• 3 years ago

I wouldn't mind an AI companion in the friend sense, but I really struggle with the GF part. Perhaps that's me being silly but it feels a step too far & like setting yourself up for trouble.

Either way it would need to 100% local. Not just privacy (that too), but more control. See replika service recently changing their algo and a bunch of people freaking out about their companion being broken.

EveYoung• 3 years ago

To me, the fact that you can configure your "GF" sounds very creepy. No real person is always happy, positive, or understanding. Especially for people with poor social skills, this sounds like it would just exacerbate their problems and make it more difficult for them to connect with humans.

whywhywhywhy• 3 years 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.

antupis• 3 years ago

yup somekind dating sim + gpt4 + micropayments will be huge kinda evil but huge.

creshal• 3 years 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.

tobiasbischoff2• 3 years ago

Snap has it in their app

laratied• 3 years 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.

red-iron-pine3• 3 years 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.

cookieperson• 3 years ago

I'm sorry y'all but this is super sad.

rsrsrs863• 3 years ago

This is very bad.

“her” is not a particularly uplifting movie.

foolinaround• 3 years ago

Instead of a GirlfriendGPT, a personal assistant GPT - which is hosted in a private location, and receives feeds of all your personal data ( emails, calendar, fitbit) and adhoc ( I can send a note to it saying I drank 6 beers last night).

It also then remembers all the past conversations, and i guess by then forms a decent idea of your tastes, etc.

This would be an amazing tool!

SketchySeaBeast3• 3 years ago

Is the trademark for AskJeeves still hanging around?

tobiasbischoff2• 3 years ago

Snapchat has exactly this now in their app

snapcaster• 3 years ago

This is an open source catfishing application. I'm not sure if the author is intending this but pretty clearly the killer use case for this currently

smusamashah• 3 years ago

Since it's using ChatGPT, won't the chat be very censored and totally SFW?

7e• 3 years ago

I suppose now is the time to see Spike Jonze’s “Her” if you haven’t already.

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