Also, is there a aggregator site for AI girlfriends where they are categorized or ranked? I might be open to trying out a non-binary/pan AI, but I want some options.

Any personal anecdotes about your own AI companion are welcome. I’m an AI-virgin… I’ve never even been on an AI-date! teehee!

  • Iced Raktajino@startrek.website
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    26 days ago

    Having seen you around and generally respecting your position on various things…

    Please be trolling. Please be trolling. Please be trolling

  • Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world
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    26 days ago

    If I saw a post of someone asking where they could find some meth because they’ve been watching Breaking Bad and want to see what all the hype is about, I’d give them the exact same answer I’m about to give you:

    No. Just no.

      • blarghly@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        26 days ago

        AI chatbots can be good for, like, therapy, if you are reasonably self aware. You can talk about your feelings, your life circumstances, and the chatbot can make some fairly generic suggestions or ask some fairly generic followup questions, and these can help you reflect and come up with your own solutions - kind of like playing with Tarot cards or something. Or they might help you roleplay some kind of event or situation, and that can be helpful.

        But anyone saying that a chatbot is anything like an actual romantic partner is either lying for sensationalist hype or, quite frankly, insane. I don’t know about the specific chatbots in the article, but every chatbot I’ve talked to is very clearly a chatbot. If not immediately, then after a couple dozen messages. They forget things. They repeat themselves. Everything they “do” is a trope in the genre of fiction they inhabit. They can be fun to fuck around with - its a decent way to make personalized porn. But as an actual companion - no. This does not exist.

        • village604@adultswim.fanEnglish
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          26 days ago

          Bro, AI has told people using it for therapy to kill themselves.

          LLMs shouldn’t ever be used as a therapist.

          • blarghly@lemmy.worldEnglish
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            26 days ago

            Hence why I said “if you are reasonably self aware.” If you need actual, real help, obviously go to a therapist. But if your problem is “sometimes I feel sad” or “certain situations make me nervous” or “I had a shitty childhood and this is causing maladaptive behaviors”, then a chatbot can, like I said, be just as good as some journalling or a work book or whatever.

    • AskewLord@piefed.socialOPEnglish
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      26 days ago

      No. I don’t know where to start. What AI do I ask? There are so many. I don’t want a bad one.

      • redlemace@lemmy.world
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        26 days ago

        I don’t want a bad one.

        you are SO funny … is there any other kind? They don’t do anything else than agreeing with you.

      • Bluegrass_Addict@lemmy.ca
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        26 days ago

        HAH… they are all bad. go talk to a tree instead of some shitty corporate fed garbage slop machine. it’ll only reinforce dumb crap, make you develop narcissistic behaviours and make you stop thinking.

  • Ziggurat@jlai.lu
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    26 days ago

    Ask your favourite search engine. There is a popular website where you can chat with AI Napoleon, AI billionaire or AI boy/girl friend.

    I am pretty sure that any LLM would do the trick with some well chosen prompt, for obvious privacy reason install LM studio and find an uncensored model running on your PC.

    Spoiler alert, it’s not a girl/boy/enby friend bit a romance novel you generate. If you understand that it’s not much different from crying when reading twilight or watching bridget Jones, or the thousands fanfic of it on wattpad. But if you think it’s a real love story please talk with a mental health professional. You can’t program a real person to love you and do what you want

  • HeHoXa@lemmy.zip
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    26 days ago

    To satisfy the curiosity, just download Ollama. You can run your interactions locally, no feeding the demon and full privacy.

    Set up a modelfile with system prompts for the kind of personality you want to create. Do some googling, may want to tweak settings to get response creativity just right. Higher parameter base models generally better and more hardware costly.

    If you want pics, you can use StableDiffusion. I recommend using docker images because it’s really complicated and environment sensitive.

    You can tie the two together with a little Python logic and have the core bot prompt the image generator at certain chat moments. Ironically, if you’re not comfortable writing code, you could just get VSCode and Gemini and spit out some pretty okay Python code without strong understanding.

    There are also tools for local audio generation I’m less familiar with but am sure Google could get you there.

    Maybe start with a basic Ollama setup and see if it feels like it’s working for you.