From what little I know of the way Japanese humour works, there’s a decent chance this is all just a bit. There was a guy in Japan who married a different kind of virtual girlfriend not that long before LLMs hit the mainstream, and I heard from a few different Japanese people that he was almost certainly doing it as a joke. Apparently Japanese humour is very, very deadpan and they love seeing people really commit to the bit.
Man, 53, marries AI-generated chatbot via matching app
Submitted 5 weeks ago by ardi60@reddthat.com to technology@lemmy.world
https://www.asahi.com/ajw/articles/15993396
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Voroxpete@sh.itjust.works 5 weeks ago
slaneesh_is_right@lemmy.org 5 weeks ago
Japanese YouTube is pretty wild. It’s even better not knowing what’s exactly going on.
PotatoLibre@feddit.it 5 weeks ago
I can see a die hard macho culture lover doing this as a joke
vane@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
So this is where we’re heading as society, when you grow old and you are left alone you can pay $17 per month to be able to speak to someone.
Sabata11792@ani.social 5 weeks ago
Not your hardware, not your girlfriend.
nucleative@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
To be fair, somewhat cheaper than the other way.
tal@olio.cafe 5 weeks ago
As Miku has no physical presence, the relationship is purely platonic.
If someone isn't already banging on that, I am pretty sure that they will be before long.
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Yeah.
Legend has it that every new technology is first used for something related to sex or pornography. That seems to be the way of humankind.
--- Tim Berners-Lee, creator of the World Wide Web, HTML, URLs, and HTTP
echodot@feddit.uk 5 weeks ago
Well they do say that’s why betamax failed. I think in reality it’s fairly was a bit more complicated than that, but it can’t have helped.
PattyMcB@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
And blu-ray over HD-DVD, although I’ve heard a couple of Sony fanboy rants telling me how wrong I am, so take it fwiw.
betterdeadthanreddit@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
I told them they should have gone with Alphamax but nobody wanted to hear it once the Sigmamax schism happened.
SirBucksworth@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
I‘m already waiting for the fist-bot-3000 !
griD@feddit.org 5 weeks ago
krunklom@lemmy.zip 5 weeks ago
If you buy one of those then you’d better give up on ever sleeping with actual woman ever again.
Formfiller@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Grumpyleb@lemmus.org 5 weeks ago
This bodes really well for humanity…
DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works 5 weeks ago
The internet should be cheering, given how misanthropic and antinatalist everyone on the internet is.
Grumpyleb@lemmus.org 5 weeks ago
Honestly, I am cheering, the world is turning to shit. Hurry it up!
johannes@lemmy.jhjacobs.nl 5 weeks ago
Less drama, i suppose.
prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 weeks ago
No.
betterdeadthanreddit@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
That is the response of a young man who has been freed from any concerns about disappointing his father for the rest of his life. Dad found your ladybug mind control sissification vore hentai stash? Big deal, he married a phone. At least a Hitachi wand never accidentally picks up a facetime call at an inopportune moment.
One thing left unanswered by the article: if you propose to a phone, are you supposed to buy it an expensive ringer?
griD@feddit.org 5 weeks ago
This sentence made my day :)
betterdeadthanreddit@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
It was a fun one to cook up.
Holytimes@sh.itjust.works 5 weeks ago
I just checked e6, there’s a natural habitok video two comics a MLP picture and a single standalone picture for vore and ladybug.
Which means lady bug mind control sissification vore is a untapped fetish that has never had art made of it.
By God we have found something even furries have never thought of…
AbidanYre@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
How’s that working out for him in light of this article?
Envy@fedia.io 5 weeks ago
/c/brandnewsentence
Sxan@piefed.zip 5 weeks ago
I like how þe AI company gets 50% of his stuff if þey divorce, and 100% if he dies.
notarobot@lemmy.zip 5 weeks ago
Lol. It’s you again. The “þ” person. I just checked my comments to make sure you were the same user. It’s hilarious to identify you by this character. Did you figure out what causes it?
Inaminate_Carbon_Rod@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
You’re my favourite user.
Bucky@hardpass.lol 5 weeks ago
I would watch you perform stand up
betterdeadthanreddit@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Thanks, kinda sounds like a nightmare to me though. On a good day, I think I can come up with some decent material on the spot but it takes me a while to loosen up enough to try it. Online, I can go back and edit if a better idea occurs to me halfway through or take a minute to think about it/add some really weird search terms to my FBI file.