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Wow this is sad on a whole new level. The idea of just making chat bot to "alleviate loneliness" is such a bold lie that's ironic at best.

Any person with a brain knows the only person that's going to pay a $1 per minute are the ones that want NSFW content and standing behind openAIs policy so that she can pretend to keep her virtue is a joke. Had the Chat bot been marketed as to answer content questions for fans I'd give her the benefit of the dought but to call it an AI girlfriend isnt even hiding it.

Secondly if you want an AI girlfriend just use oobabooga (https://github.com/oobabooga/text-generation-webui) and prompt your own AI girlfriend. I feel no remorse for those that pay a dollar per minute for this garbage either.

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I'm curious whether the developers were pitched this by management as some lofty social goal like democratizing digital relationships or perhaps disrupting OnlyFans DMs?

Lol Forever Voices seems like it's 3 dudes in a basement who just use a OpenAI API to train and deploy this stuff. There was not an ounce of real development that went into this. If you had a the subtitles to your favorite YouTubers videos you could spit this out in minutes. Hell you could take your text messages with your real girlfriend and make a shallow clone of her if you wanted.

On one level it's sad, on another level I'd rather people that want a solution for loneliness they're already experiencing have a solution.

Ya but it's not going to solve a person's loneliness problem. Every day you choose to talk to a chat bot rather than make an attempt to talk to real people you are more lonely. Secondly it's only going to affirm ones ego rather than improve ones communication and more important listening skills through real conversations if it blindly agrees with everything you say.

It's a solution the same way alcohol is a solution for depression.

Truth

I'm pretty sure 'a solution for loneliness' already existed before this product.

Right there's 8 billon people on this rock most people people live in dense over packed cities and spend a majority of there life on devices that let you communicate with anyone on the planet. People don't have a loneliness problem, they Over identity with niece communitys online and can't carry a conversation with anyone in real life. They lose a since of real empathy for the person in front of them despite having strong moral stances on social issues.

From the front page:

> Available anytime, anywhere, Caryn has been flawlessly cloned into an AI for your convenience and enjoyment.”

Just me, or a bit creepy?

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