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It might be heavy, but I really like the idea of someone building this to run offline and completely on-device. Maybe branded as a sort of 'personal journal with an audience'. My experience with mobile diaries is the biggest challenge is encouraging the user to keep up the habit. I'm very curious if this could be solved by introducing a new cycle of feedback from AI peers who would feign curiosity about my life.

Could you see people using that?

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Does it come with people picking you apart, hatemail, unsolicited nudes, etc.?

I think in an ideal world you could groom your audience to your liking! Personally, if I could suspend my disbelief, I'd love an army of virtual techies telling me how clever my ideas are. Others might prefer a legion of other super moms praising their selfless parenting when no one else does, or like you were getting at, maybe just a peanut gallery!

Image gen on-device might be tough, we'll save that for the 1.1 release ;)

I'm not sure if you are sarcastic, but your definition of "ideal world" feels very different from mine. What you describe sounds as close to the scifi concept of wireheading as I can imagine to get without brain surgery.

I'm being tongue in cheek, for sure. Let's pretend I said "ideally" instead, as in, "ideally the product would function this way".

I admittedly wouldn't be the target audience for this concept, nor would I take up wireheading. When I see the huge success of Character.ai or the above SocialAI though, I'm really convinced there's a market segment of people younger than us who get a lot out of communicating with virtual "friends".

Even humorless curmudgeons (like me) can get in on the action with a huge array of people to disagree with, act snobby to, and never before heard of stupid opinions!

The bots have canceled me.

This is still sad

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