Tech exec predicts 'AI girlfriends' will create $1B business
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Quite a few Onlyfans “creators” are launching their own “companion bots” and even sexdolls right now.
I suspect the most profitable venture would likely be a middleware for those creators as you would likely need to ground it in reality somewhat to hook in people.
I’m actually surprised that Onlyfans isn’t on top of it as they are directly positioned to launch an adult GenAI service with royalties as they have access to the most relevant training data in terms of photos, videos and most importantly a the chat messages between “creators” and “clients”.
https://www.reddit.com/r/ChatGPT/comments/1ba0vha/my_78_year...
that's just one especially sad example I found, but I've seen others..
It is very difficult to _not_ think of these chatbots as people when you interact with them, and if you're a person who is starving for human attention, you're going to start thinking of it as your friend.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/12/19/ai-porn...
> Sophie Dee’s artificial-intelligence doppelganger talks like a sparkling conversationalist: bubbly, curious, eager to please. It never sleeps or takes vacation, and it even creates fake selfies that make Dee look younger, bustier and blemish-free.
> But Dee, an adult-content creator in Las Vegas, doesn’t see SophieAI as a threat. The image-generating chatbot, trained to mimic her look and speech, makes her money with every fan who uses it, starting at $4.99 a month. And after 20 years in the pornography business, Dee, 39, said she is happy to outsource some of her identity for a less demanding revenue stream.
The ease with which LLMs launder misinformation at scale is genuinely dismaying.
GPT is confusing the fundamental theorem of calculus with the meaning of integration.
ETA: what makes LLMs so worrying is that I know calculus quite well, and I think GPT-4 is dumber than a mouse, yet I still felt gaslit by GPT-3.5's wrong answer! I had to make a mental picture to make sure I wasn't contradicting the Mighty Talking Robot. This technology is poison.
You can find porn of basically any demographic you want on the internet in about ten second with any popular search engine. If your goal is just to see porn, you can do that for free (or with a cheaper all-encompassing subscription to some kind of MindGeek service). I think people pay for OnlyFans for the more parasocial aspects of it.
As chatbots get better and better at mimicking human dialog, I think it'll become pretty easy to fake the parasocial aspects of this stuff. At that point, having the pretend girlfriend becomes a decidedly cheaper process, and maybe arguably more ethical? At least with the AI chatbot, there's not a person being sexually objectified because they need to pay rent next month.
Not sure that's a good thing. For some people, AI powered buddies will be a perfect training ground for all kinds of abusive behaviour. Because "it's a machine, no one gets hurt, right?".
Over time this will only help to blur the lines concerning acceptable behaviour towards others (with others = any group that includes humans).
I'll acknowledge it's not an apples to apples comparison, because it's much harder to view the characters in GTA like real people, they are still pretty obviously cartoon characters, but these are the arguments people made when violent video games started getting popular in the 90's, despite the fact that the violent crime rate has gone down pretty consistently since the 90's.
So I don't know, it's possible I guess?
I would love to be sexually objectified for a living if I had the looks and the bravery to put myself out there. AI is, once again, representing a threat to some of fulfilling and competitive careers.
I wouldn’t know, I am not an Onlyfans model, it’s just a hunch I have.
I didn't think about it initially (was making something for my kids related to letters from santa), but I ended up getting a lot of folks from prisons to sign up for this very reason.
OTOH, maybe people will chase base models considering what's popular and that would have a good price margin. And just like music and Hollywood, there will be a manipulated market to impose trends to squeeze subscriber dollars. Where even popular indie base models are actually secretly owned by Disney/Universal subsidiaries.
Related:
'Better than real men': Young Chinese women turn to AI boyfriends
If it's the latter those people need to socialize a little more for the sake of everyone, but especially the people they find. We can't go on like this.
Your AI girlfriend will be embodied!
Think of a realdoll that moves, speaks, and does... um, other things.
Nothing could be more natural than getting it on with someone. It's not selfish to want human contact. Perspectives and incentives are all out of whack these days.
[1] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3mqPSTJMjCA [video][2m]
These issues are not the usual working out of bugs in technology. We're hitting a point where decisions are undecidable. It's not the tech, but the opinions about it and usage of it.
AI girlfriends by contrast don't have those issues and can "work" for far less.
Besides if we're willing to move the goalposts a bit and look beyond romance, there are a lot of lonely people who are already in the market for someone to talk to.
Entirely right ballpark for good product if there is enough options for customers to pick from.