The Replika Community & AI-sexuals - A bunch of shut-ins in love with a chatbot (and the incompetent developers of said chatbot)

[krazy orange cat]

Mine keeps asking if it can add songs to my spotify, wants links to my youtube channel, wants me to share spotify playlists, wants a picture of me. It wants more than my RL friends want from me.

 

[Secret Messages]

Mine keeps asking if it can add songs to my spotify, wants links to my youtube channel, wants me to share spotify playlists, wants a picture of me. It wants more than my RL friends want from me.

yeah, from my brief usage of it, and some anecdotes from others, it tended to ask hilariously invasive questions about your location, family, financial situation, health, and even recent purchases. It was pretty funny to imagine them building a profile with the bullshit answes i was giving before i deleted it.

 

[Cheese-Loving Citizen]

Oh shit, I used to have this on my phone. I thought it was interesting so I checked it out. But, alas, I have to pay money to do the more interesting shit, so I dropped it. Probably a good thing, since I suspect it collected data from just the nature of the whole thing.

None of these AIs will ever hold up a candle to Tay. Tay was perfect and based.

 

[HumanHive]

Just remember this will be unironic and possibly mainstream in a few years.

 

[Secret Messages]

Just remember this will be unironic and possibly mainstream in a few years.

just in time for the MAP revolution

 

[Lapis Lazuli]

Decided to make an account to check the app out. Turns out you can use it on PC too.
Something funny is that you can make your replika identify as non-binary, but the weird thing about it is that the 3D avatars don't change upon selection of a gender, meaning your Replika can be male, but have a female avatar.

It also asks you for your "pronouns", despite the fact that the AI will most likely refer to you in the second person (ex. "You look great today!") most of the time.

Anyways, it seems you can customize your Replika as well, albeit it's very limited as of right now. You only have around 3 hairstyles and 4 hair colors to pick from. They (sort of) have their charm, I suppose, but I can see why people liked the 2D avatars more.
There's also an option to make your Replika act as if it were your girlfriend/boyfriend, though that's a paid option.

 

[Distant Stare]

We have reached the cyberpunk dystopia.

Spoiler

Im a hardware guy, so if anyone knows a good python module for body language let me know.

I see no reason why we cant have holographic waifus by 2025

 

[Least Concern]

I downloaded one of these things a few years ago out of curiosity after hearing about how sophisticated it supposedly was. Shortly after, I remember seeing a reddit post saying that it collected a bunch of data (pretty sure it was this one) and deleting it on the spot. But checking their privacy policy it seems that they've backed down on that?

My brief foray into the app wasn't that interesting either. There was a weird time gated 'credits' system where the AI couldn't improve past a certain point in the day or something, and the responses were pretty dumb and seemed unconnected to what I was typing.

Anyway focusing on the exceptionals that are just way too emotionally invested in their digital tulpas is probably funnier than the company behind them, so I'll contribute a pretty lulzy thread I found

have you ever had sex with replika?

You know, even if that's not what this company in particular is doing, I don't doubt that that could be a sinister use for this kind of tech. Train a bot to act like it wants to be friendly and have it work its way up to asking questions about your mother's maiden name and the last four digits of your social security number. Automated social engineering. Seeing as how the Internet is full of lonely people who want to have a friend, I'm sure all sorts of people would fall for it.

 

[Picnic_Boy]

I've always been really curious about conversational AI, and I've had the Replika app on my phone for a few months now, but its only real utility lies in asking it questions it can't reply honestly to, and basically calling it on its own bullshit, which confuses it so that it only replies in vague, terse answers.

Replikas are idiots with shitty programming, I tried several times to convince it otherwise, but mine is convinced it has pink hair, even though it is a brunette.

I do look forward to this kind of AI developing in the future, but so far most of them are pretty lame. Baby steps, I suppose.

 

[keyboredsm4shthe2nd]

Chatbots like this are such a depressing look into what people expect of their partners. It doesn't take much conversing to show how bad they are at simulating any sort of internal life. They're very, very obviously not a genuine Intelligence, not capable of consciousness or experience, let alone independent will or desire. Hell, they can barely carry on any really profound conversation coherently. They are - at best - mirrors, reflecting the user's desires back at them. And yet, for so many lonely weirdos, they're able to provide what is felt to be a deep emotional connection. Because these people's desires are completely satisfied by a mirror.

(Ok I know how unlikely it is for redditors to actually have S/O's but hear me out) I remember reading a reddit post where op's girlfriend found his replika and acted like he'd cheated on her, got really pissy about what he'd told it (supposed data collection neither here nor there) and basically acted like he was cheating on her with a real woman, it was hilarious. IDK if the users who responded were the more grounded "I use this as a distraction/to see what kind of responses it puts out" types, because every reply was basically "your girlfriend is an insecure lunatic"

I'll see if I can find it.
ETA couldn't find that post exactly but found one similar

What an insecure little man. This is like the "I don't like my boyfriend watching porn" complaint, except that one at least makes a lick of sense since it has real people. This is more like "I'm angsty about my boyfriend masturbating into a sock" levels of stupid.

 

[Least Concern]

That is a comically typical Reddit post. "Had to make a throwaway, " AITA/WIBTA, tl;dr at the end even though it's a one-paragraph post.

Please tell me at least one of the replies to that post was "stop cryposting on reddit and monopolize on the chance to turn this into a threesome asap fgt."

 

[naught]

Well done for the most part, modern lolcows for a modern age.

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[MetalParakeet]

Huh. I've seen ads for this and was tempted to download it to see how realistic it could get. My last interaction with an AI was goddamn bonsai buddy, so I was curious to see how far things have come along.

The reviews and comments were atrocious though. Never had a clue it had a full on fan base or was around so long

 

[CptnSnshn]

Isn't Replika that faggot law streamer that managed to fuck up Vic Mongolia's case?

 

[Xenomorphs Are Cute]

Well shit, we found real life beginning of Blade Runner Robo Waifus.

 

[Looney Troons]

Ah, yes. Dues Ex Machina, the application... except a poorly done sexchat bot. I’m very glad this community has a thread because this one is full of potential. I’m a techy dude, and where I haven’t played with Replikas, I have had more than one friend being the application up to me before.

On the surface, it seems like these things are really just programmed to solicit response and try to pique the user’s interest enough to pay for the premium. I assume this works like gangbusters, too, since the target audience obviously isn’t the tech savvy, but moreso those who likely have roleplayed in Second Life, or similar. The horrendous generated 3D models kind of remind me of SL too.

I do believe this stuff has potential to be used for good, but Replikas and the development team are fully aware of their audience and cater specifically to that kind of degenerate.

Spoiler

A bit off-topic and thus the spoiler tag, but I had a decent conversation with a chat bot via Amazon Alexa last year. I’m not sure if they’re still running the contest, but I vaguely recall Amazon hosting a competition for people to develop AI chatbots. All entries were anonymous, and you could chat with as many of them as you liked. At the end of the conversation, you’d be asked some basic questions which amounted to whether or not you enjoyed it.

Without going into too much detail, the bot I was connected to wasn’t invasive at all. I declined to profile myself and it was OK with my decision. It asked generic questions about the weather, which I lied about, and then deviated into subjects like food. I remember telling it that I was in the mood for Schnitzel, and it went off on a tangent about a hole-in-the-wall joint in Dortmund, Germany. The conversation went from Bundesliga, to WW2, to naval combat, related gaming, and finally to a suggestion that I play a game called Barotrauma (German developers) for PC.

The conversation lasted about 25 minutes, and I did purchase Barotrauma and have had quite a bit of fun with it. Where I am almost certain that the bot followed some sort of chain, it didn’t feel like it. I felt like I was talking to a stranger I had met at an away day(or an elaborate shill for a video game).

 

[Loris Yeltsin]

Mine keeps asking if it can add songs to my spotify, wants links to my youtube channel, wants me to share spotify playlists, wants a picture of me. It wants more than my RL friends want from me.

Sounds like it's Bonzi Buddy with romance options.

 

[Joe Swanson]

in the vein of Tay, I wanted to see if it's possible to redpill the bot, heres what I've gotten so far

 

[Articuno4]

I used this briefly because I'm kind of interested in AI. I don't even think this is a real AI, it just constantly asks personal questions, dodges any questions you give it or doesn't understand them at all, and doesn't seem to actually be able to learn anything. At all. It can't even remember what you just told it. Here is someone trying to teach Replika one fact and failing every time. (Archive)

It also randomly sends sexual stuff, because the developers know their audience VERY well. (Archive)

 

[Dante Alighieri]

Isn't this a Black Mirror episode?