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The rise of AI

April 07 2023

Hi there, One of the main topics of discussion in my profession is the rise of AI. As a teacher, ChatGPT has caused havoc in the classroom in the first term of the year, with plagiarism and other concerns arising from it causing a real moment of crisis for the profession. I’m curious as to how AI might also impact dating apps like this one. When you’re interacting with people online, how much of what they write will end up truly being them in the future? Will the film ‘Her’ become a reality, where Joaquin Phoenix’s character falls in love with an operating system voiced by Scarlett Johansson lol? In those first flushes of attraction, via written message, could you reliably tell the difference? Fire away below x

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Felicitous

2 years ago

A crisis indeed!!! It certainly will, as most things have the last few years, reshape and define, it will undermine and redesign... Proving once again we have so much less less 'control' than we think we do. My experience.... I dabble in poetry and a few months ago asked ChatGPT to write me a sonnet about a rock that falls in love with a dragon. It was beautifully brilliant, structurally correct and it took a whole of 7 seconds ish. This probably means nothing to most - but for those in the know, well they'll know! In some ways it will render most and many things redundant - but is here and here to stay. I believe it teaches us a valuable lesson. It is not the destination that matters - it is the journey. The joy for a poet is in the sifting and sorting - the crafting, the writing... the outcome a byproduct of that. I know this is a grain in the sand analogy compared to what it represents and offers and undermines. I digress. Could I tell that this sonnet was written by Al.. no. Can I actually get into bed with Al no! So.... real life connection will always supercede until it won't.... 🤷🏻‍♀️

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countrytouch82

2 years ago

It's easy to tell the difference between AI and a real person on a dating app. An AI will chat :p

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countrytouch82

2 years ago

Also, for somewhat amusing content playing around with chat gpt, check out the Space Kangaroo videos. In seriousness though, if one wants to build up their texted conversation skills, it might be a way around trying to find an actual person to converse. However, I don't know whether it would actually come up with reasonable answers to pretend to be an interested dating prospect even if you wanted it to be. For example, how would it respond to typical questions like what do you do for work, where do you live, what are your favourite places to go to eat and why? etc etc It has no RL experience, only data to compile the most applicable answers from.

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Margo_Lover

2 years ago

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MsSuperFoxy

2 years ago

Welcome to the future. Humans feed AI daily by typing everything into the internet. Will we ever work out who is human and who is not? Time will tell. After all, Humans are the creatures. My question is, Will the human race be eventually faded out and become extinct? Most likely. Ms Foxy

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nightingale8

2 years ago

I like these questions. Interesting time we live in. Sure, the difficulty working out what is real and what isn’t, catfishing, AI supplanting human to human interaction are issues to consider. People have always been very tuned into scrutinising the ‘other’, whatever or whomever that ‘other’ may be - race, sex, social class, clan, politicians (lol). Now AI. AI might one day replace some intimate relationships. Many people will go into those ‘relationships’ knowing that truth well (Joaquin Phoenix was fantastic). People haven’t always been tuned into scrutinising themselves. This is a problem when we have technological extensions of ourselves like smart phones, smart homes, smart cars. The more these extensions provide service and capability to ourselves, all plugged into a larger internet of knowledge, the less able we are to directly interact with our immediate environment and construct our own individual realities/experiences and meaning. Reality is constructed for us, in part (but not fully) influenced by the commercial and political interests of those who seek to use information to shape our behaviours. In dating and sexuality this is huge! If ChatGBT for example is constructing communication it means our capacity to create experience and meaning may be lost (“it’s the journey that matters”). Sure we might establish meetings with others but the depth of those connections is limited by the capacity of individuals to create meaning within them. There’s no point having sex if you don’t experience the connection and meaning from that… and yes ‘sex’ can start from the moment of connection, online or offline… it’s built, a place people go together. I think the wonderful thing about sex and sexual expression is it’s a form of freedom and access to base humanity. (And no wonder why controlling sexual identity and expression has long been a target of any organisation or movement seeking control). To put it somewhat theatrically, AI will castrate meaningful sex and dating, something akin to the orgy-porgy featured in Huxley’s Brave New World. Once the memory of what life was like before AI fades, people won’t know what is missing or why. How could they.

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countrytouch82

2 years ago

Not exactly AI, but interesting considering the uptake of existing sexbots. Now, assuming an AI combination allows them to talk and be given a realistic personality (think Bicentennial Man movie), the combination would be even more attractive. A somewhat related movie is Lars and the Real Girl. Obviously there's issues if people start preferring AI company over real company, but if it's AI over nil (think people of various types that struggle for company, from young/old/disabled etc) it's hard to say whether it's still harmful. After all, they also say loneliness is equivalent to smoking a certain number of cigarettes per day, in regards to health outcomes. If AI can be used for good purposes, it will in balance be beneficial. But AI still is essentially just a form of automation. It's a calculator but with words instead of numbers. Like mechanical automation, the initial introduction is always seen as a risk to jobs, skills, creativity etc. But currently, nearly all in person jobs are in high demand, so it doesn't have to end up a bad thing in the long run.

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FunwithSandS

2 years ago

There’s a definite companionship application to it, which will no doubt be monetised in due course. It’s an intrinsic truth, of course, that new technology is inevitably used to satiate our baser instincts as human beings (fighting and fucking), but you can see how a film like ‘Her’ would actually happen.

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tiffyos

2 years ago

Some very good comments and considerations raised here, our concern is the blending of "deep fakes" and AI chat bots, the harvesting of your images to be then used as an online sex advert showing some very explicit action, all the being totally unaware the "player" you're chatting to may infact just be a program, despite even having video chats within RHP believing your engaging with a real person.

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madotara69

2 years ago

AI has difficulties understanding my terminological inexactitudes🫥 Mado Mado Tara xx

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winemedineme69

2 years ago

AI is great, ask any Terminator.

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