Are there any Open Source girlfriends that we can download and compile?
Your AI Girlfriend Is a Data-Harvesting Horror Show
Submitted 10 months ago by FlyingSquid@lemmy.world to technology@lemmy.world
https://gizmodo.com/your-ai-girlfriend-is-a-data-harvesting-horror-show-1851253284
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Gork@lemm.ee 10 months ago
herrcaptain@lemmy.ca 10 months ago
Hey now, I don’t want anyone looking at my girlfriend’s source code. That’s personal!
demonsword@lemmy.world 10 months ago
I don’t want anyone looking at my girlfriend’s source code
it’s okay, dude, we all already did…
DarkThoughts@kbin.social 10 months ago
The bots (what the actual girlfriends or whatever other characters are) aren't the problem. You can find them on chub.ai for example or write them yourself fairly easily. The issue the software, and even more so the hardware. You need something like the mentioned Kobold.ccp or oobabooga, and then you'd also need a trained LLM model that you can get on huggingface.co, which is already where it gets complicated (they'll be loaded within kobold or oobabooga). You also need to understand how they work in regards to context sizes & bytes, because they need a lot, and I mean A LOT of vram to work properly. Basically, the more vram you have, the better the contextual understanding, their memory is. Otherwise you'd have a bot that maybe knows to only contextualize the last couple messages. For paid services like novelai.net you basically have your bots run through big ass server farms with lots of GPUs that bundle their vram and processing power, giving you "decent" context sizes (imo the greatest weak point of LLMs and it is deeply rooted in how they work) and decent speed. NovelAI also supports front-ends like SillyTavern which is great for local bot management and settings, regardless if you self host or use a paid service (NOT EVERY PAID SERVICE HAS AN API FOR THIS! OpenAI's ChatGPT technically does too but they do not allow NSFW content and can ban you for that if caught).
There's a bunch of "free" online services too, like janitorai.com but most of them have slow speeds and the chat degrades significantly after just a few messages, because they have low context sizes. The better / paid models suffer from this degradation too but it is slower and less noticeable, at least at first. You can use that to get an idea of how LLMs work though.Gork@lemm.ee 10 months ago
Does it make it faster if the GPU has waifu stickers on it?
SwampYankee@mander.xyz 10 months ago
Basically, the more vram you have, the better the contextual understanding, their memory is. Otherwise you’d have a bot that maybe knows to only contextualize the last couple messages.
Hmm, if only there was some hardware analogue for long-term memory.
pennomi@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Pretty easy to roll your own with Kobold.cpp and various open model weights found on HuggingFace.
TipRing@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Also for an interface, I’d recommend KoboldLite for writing or assistant and SillyTavern for chat/RP.
DarkThoughts@kbin.social 10 months ago
I tried oobabooga and it basically always crashes when I try to generate anything, no matter what model I try. But honestly, as far as I can tell all the good models require absurd amounts of vram, much more than consumer cards have, so you'd need at least like a small gpu server farm to local host them reliably yourself. Unless of course you want like practically nonexistent context sizes.
e-ratic@kbin.social 10 months ago
Ask Kreiger https://files.catbox.moe/e0i784.jpg
itsAsin@lemmy.world 10 months ago
i second this request. please
DarkThoughts@kbin.social 10 months ago
See my other reply for some basic info & pointers.
jabathekek@sopuli.xyz 10 months ago
leaky_shower_thought@feddit.nl 10 months ago
Hey Sugar, which of these pics have traffic lights on them?
bots gotta help each other
TheFriar@lemm.ee 10 months ago
Yeah. Saw that one coming.
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Isn’t this what every app on your phone is already doing? Why would “AI Girlfriend App” be any better than Facebook or Google?
mishielda1234@lemmy.world 10 months ago
It’s even more insidious because these apps ask for the data upfront under the guise of “getting to know you better”
How can your AI girlfriend truly love you back unless you give it your real name, age, photos of your face, mother’s maiden name, social security number, and genetic material? /s
TheFriar@lemm.ee 10 months ago
lol it’s not. That’s the point. It’s all the same sort of companies putting these fucking things out. Google and Facebook are both working on their own AI. It’s been shown over and over how they’re scraping all available data—public or private when available—so why the fuck would a newer tech company be any different? It’s the state of capitalism. The markets are focusing more on hyper focused data, so that’s what any profitable tech company is doing. Invading your fucking privacy.
That’s why it’s not a surprise. Because Facebook and google helped set the trend and determine the current tech market. And that’s the world these new “AI girlfriends” are existing in.
averyfalken@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 months ago
Idk all my apps are open source and most don’t connect to internet except ones that need it like eternity for reddit
EdibleFriend@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Incels warned us about females
FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 10 months ago
As did Ferengi.
EdibleFriend@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Giving the AI clothing was a mistake.
drahardja@lemmy.world 10 months ago
I thought this was a new Chuck Tingle novel.
dwemthy@lemdro.id 10 months ago
Pounded in the Butt by my Data Stealing AI Girlfriend
BreadOven@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Fooled again, it’s Chuck Testa.
Ozymati@lemmy.nz 10 months ago
He’s on social media. This could probably be arranged.
TheOakTree@lemm.ee 10 months ago
24 thousand tracker calls in one minute.
That’s impressively gross.
ivanafterall@kbin.social 10 months ago
Like I could ever get an AI girlfriend. They'd never have me.
NewAgeOldPerson@lemmy.world 10 months ago
You need Lucy Lou bot.
SwampYankee@mander.xyz 10 months ago
It’s amazing the way you NOTICE TWO THINGS.
maynarkh@feddit.nl 10 months ago
The entire internet is a data harvesting horror show. It’s good for the economy though, so we don’t do anything against it.
Brutticus@lemm.ee 10 months ago
this is the title of my next light novel
Petter1@lemm.ee 10 months ago
If you not self-host your girlfriend, it is just prostitution. /s
FaceDeer@kbin.social 10 months ago
Indeed. She's not really your girlfriend unless you own her completely and can control everything she thinks.
DarkThoughts@kbin.social 10 months ago
"AI" is funny anyway because you're basically gaslighting them the whole time to have them behave as they're supposed to.
orbit@lemmy.world 10 months ago
People panned the game but this was the whole point of the NG Resonance character in Deus Ex Invisible War. People would basically tell this AI pop star intimate details about their lives and then the data was used to against them and their local communities.
Murdoc@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
I always wondered though, how many of those people were aware that it was an ai and not the real NG Resonance? (Have to admit, she did get me in trouble with the Omar. My bad. 😅)
KingThrillgore@lemmy.ml 10 months ago
The shit I do for a discount on non-PiezoChem functionality.
orbit@lemmy.world 10 months ago
I think they knew and it didn’t matter to them which is oddly prophetic when I look at the state of the world today lol
Kolanaki@yiffit.net 10 months ago
I’m not sure what kind of use collecting all my most fucked up thoughts can be.
captainlezbian@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Either advertisers or the cops, possibly both want that information very much
neptune@dmv.social 10 months ago
Making a better chat bot AI girlfriend, informing porn directors, leaking it to the Russians,
Kolanaki@yiffit.net 10 months ago
Making a better chat bot AI girlfriend
Cool.
informing porn directors
Neat.
leaking it to the Russians
My thoughts aren’t fucked up enough to be useful to them.
autotldr@lemmings.world [bot] 10 months ago
This is the best summary I could come up with:
According to a new study from Mozilla’s *Privacy Not Included project, AI girlfriends and boyfriends harvest shockingly personal information, and almost all of them sell or share the data they collect.
“Although they are marketed as something that will enhance your mental health and well-being, they specialize in delivering dependency, loneliness, and toxicity, all while prying as much data as possible from you.”
Every single one earned the Privacy Not Included label, putting these chatbots among the worst categories of products Mozilla has ever reviewed.
You’ve heard stories about data problems before, but according to Mozilla, AI girlfriends violate your privacy in “disturbing new ways.” For example, CrushOn.AI collects details including information about sexual health, use of medication, and gender-affirming care.
One of the more striking findings came when Mozilla counted the trackers in these apps, little bits of code that collect data and share them with other companies for advertising and other purposes.
EVA AI Chat Bot & Soulmate pushes users to “share all your secrets and desires,” and specifically asks for photos and voice recordings.
The original article contains 545 words, the summary contains 177 words. Saved 68%. I’m a bot and I’m open source!
Deceptichum@kbin.social 10 months ago
My what now?
nutsack@lemmy.world 10 months ago
damn I was waiting for someone else to finally figure this out besides me I thought I was a genius or something
KingThrillgore@lemmy.ml 10 months ago
Why don’t these people do what perfectly mentally unhealthy do and just abuse the super chat of your local vtuber?
Asudox@lemmy.world 10 months ago
At least the VTuber is a real human behind a anime figure.
RobotToaster@mander.xyz 10 months ago
I didn’t realise they are that realistic.
NegativeLookBehind@kbin.social 10 months ago
You’re just jealous of our love.
thorbot@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Can we please stop posting Gizmodo shit posts? It’s just pure garbage
GilgameshCatBeard@lemmy.ca 10 months ago
ROFL! There country be a more hilarious headline! I love it!
BetaDoggo_@lemmy.world 10 months ago
This is why you should always selfhost your AI girlfriend.
pennomi@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Woah there, I’m not sure I’m ready for that level of commitment.
foggy@lemmy.world 10 months ago
I ain’t got that kinda GPU to spare. If it’s the games or my AI girlfriend…
CouncilOfFriends@lemmy.world 10 months ago
I’d have to actually test my backup strategy
iquanyin@lemmy.world 10 months ago
🤣
match@pawb.social 10 months ago
I’d only date someone fully independent, so my AI joyfriend operates their own cloud cluster through a combination of a crypto wallet and findom
anarchrist@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 months ago
They sound fun
iquanyin@lemmy.world 10 months ago
🤣
neutron@thelemmy.club 10 months ago
I’m interested. So you rent a cluster to run an instance instead of self hosting?
werefreeatlast@lemmy.world 10 months ago
I think my wife is cheating on me with my self hosted AI girlfriend’s boyfriend that lives in the same database file. What do I do?
AZERTY@feddit.nl 10 months ago
Delete system32 obviously
Murdoc@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
For as long as everyone is using a virus checker, maybe you could try an open source relationship.
DrWeevilJammer@lemmy.ml 10 months ago
Sounds like a job for Little Bobby Tables
z00s@lemmy.world 10 months ago
That’ll make you go blind
RGB3x3@lemmy.world 10 months ago
And give you hairy palms
yildolw@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Now consider the number of normal people in the world who do not have a server rack in their closet, and how much they are about to be defrauded and blackmailed
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Broke, Busted, Burned Out
Smart, Sexy, Superconductive
wabafee@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Let me go buy some milk.
DarkThoughts@kbin.social 10 months ago
You need a little gpu server farm for proper models & context sizes though. Single consumer gpus don't have enough vram for that.
glowie@h4x0r.host 10 months ago
Might as well just pay for a prostitute
TakiMinase@slrpnk.net 10 months ago
Nvidia^TM
NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone 10 months ago
You have to at least move out of your AI parents’ server rack before letting your AI girlfriend move in.