Culture AI girlfriend bots are already flooding OpenAI’s GPT store - OpenAI’s store rules are already being broken, illustrating that regulating GPTs could be hard to control

https://qz.com/ai-girlfriend-bots-are-already-flooding-openai-s-gpt-st-1851159131

Screenshot of “girlfriend” search results on OpenAI’s GPT store.

It’s day two of the opening of OpenAI’s buzzy GPT store, which offers customized versions of ChatGPT, and users are already breaking the rules. The Generative Pre-Trained Transformers (GPTs) are meant to be created for specific purposes—and not created at all in some cases.

A search for “girlfriend” on the new GPT store will populate the site’s results bar with at least eight “girlfriend” AI chatbots, including “Korean Girlfriend,” “Virtual Sweetheart,” “Your girlfriend Scarlett,” “Your AI girlfriend, Tsu.”

Click on chatbot “Virtual Sweetheart,” and a user will receive starting prompts like “What does your dream girl look like?” and “Share with me your darkest secret.”

AI chatbots are breaking OpenAI’s usage policy rules​

The AI girlfriend bots go against OpenAI’s usage policy, which was updated when the GPT store launched yesterday (Jan. 10). The company bans GPTs “dedicated to fostering romantic companionship or performing regulated activities.” It is not clear exactly what regulated activities entail. Quartz has contacted OpenAI for comment and will update this story if the company responds.

Notably, the company is aiming to get ahead of potential conflicts with its OpenAI store. Relationship chatbots are, indeed, popular apps. In the US, seven of the 30 AI chatbot apps downloaded in 2023 from the Apple or Google Play store were related to AI friends, girlfriends, or companions, according to data shared with Quartz from data.ai, a mobile app analytics firm.

The proliferation of these apps comes as the US faces an epidemic of loneliness and isolation. Alarming studies show that one-in-two American adults have reported experiencing loneliness, with the US Surgeon General calling for the need to strengthen social connections. AI chatbots could be part of the solution if people are isolated from other human beings—or they could just be a way to cash in on human suffering.

The company says it uses a combination of automated systems, human review, and user reports to find and assess GPTs that potentially violate its policies, which can lead to actions such as “warning, sharing restrictions, or ineligibility for inclusion in GPT store or monetization.”

OpenAI’s GPT store is operating in the Wild West​

OpenAI’s store rules being broken on the second day of operation illustrates how hard it could be to regulate GPTs.

In the past year, tech companies have been releasing AI tools in “beta” mode and have explicitly noted that their product could make mistakes. For instance, in the ChatGPT chat screen, OpenAI has a line at the bottom stating: “ChatGPT can make mistakes. Consider checking important information.”

Notably, tech companies have also been quick to look into reported problems with their AI, in part because getting this right matters as they race to dominate the space.

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Well it was a matter of time. Now you can get your own AI waifu.

 

[Bonesjones]

For decades, people would play video games and then a girl would join and the guys would chat with her hoping for .... what? I don't know.

You do know millions of relationships start online? Whether long distance or personal. I remember a few people paring off and getting married after I stopped playing WOW. Shit hasn't there been a few marriages that started from people talking on kiwi farms?

 

[Oilspill Battery]

If you had the sort of money to buy something like this you probably wouldn't be single in the first place. Just saying.

A product who's target demographic can't afford it. Truly ironic.

Though honestly, large parts of modern tech are overpriced due to unbelievably ludicrusly overwhelming massive greed disguised as "research and development costs".

An iphone costs like 1.5k to buy while the materials to make it are what? 100?

If they went for lower margains instead of ludircus markups and priced it like x3 manufacturing cost it could reasonably be affordable by a dedicated otaku and actually form a dedicated customer base.

Obviously they'll just price it at like x1000 markup because muh technology tho.

You mean you would rather rent it for an hour? I think that's a lot more realistic and probably will be available in the near future.

What would even be the appeal at that point? AI girlfriends are attractive because they're always there for you, if you're gonna only have access to your girlfriend by the hour at a specific location... just rent a hooker?

Who is this even aimed at? People who are too shy to buy hookers but shameless enough to fuck a robot?

 

[FeatherPlucker]

summoning @FeatherPlucker so she can schizopost in here

I’ll probably get thread banned but… whatever.
AI fuck robots: All the more reason for women to refuse to have children.

 

[⋖ cørdion ⋗]

Female figures who're kind and seek to be desired. How can real women compete?

 

[SSj_Ness (Yiffed)]

How else are they going to charge you for platinum subscription for 99.99 usd coomer ?

You think I could coom to a simplistic chat bot lol

You do know millions of relationships start online? Whether long distance or personal. I remember a few people paring off and getting married after I stopped playing WOW. Shit hasn't there been a few marriages that started from people talking on kiwi farms?

It's weird that people don't acknowledge that. It's much better to organically start a relationship in person obviously, but online is fine too, it's way better than using dating apps.

I’ll probably get thread banned but… whatever.
AI fuck robots: All the more reason for women to refuse to have children.

All the more reason for men to avoid them and encourage building the bots better and faster, the more women talk like you the more I support this necessary evil. You only have yourself to blame.

Female figures who're kind and seek to be desired. How can real women compete?

Just being kind would be enough, but look at the harpies in here, it's just impossible for them. Kind women do exist but they're jewels, these rocks are common.

 

[Oilspill Battery]

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Scaling hot take, but honestly, I keep hearing people bitch about bread and circuses, yet a grocery run costs like 50$, can't afford anything to begin with and most entertainment is spiteful propagandistic sewage.

A regime under which not only do I not have to worry about groceries, but can also have money to spend on "consumerism" AND also provides a stream of high quality entertainment?

Compared to current day living that shit sounds like a fucking utopia.

The more I grow up the more I start to wonder since when "bread and circuses" was ever a bad thing. The only people who complain about bread and circuses are overprivilidged shitsheads who've obviously never wanted for either.

 

[SSj_Ness (Yiffed)]

Scaling hot take, but honestly, I keep hearing people bitch about bread and circuses, yet a grocery run costs like 50$, can't afford anything to begin with and most entertainment is spiteful propagandistic sewage.

Junk & fast food tastes good enough and is addictive, still affordable too, perfect for them; they milk people for more money, they get less quantity & quality but still a tolerable outcome, and as a bonus they get sicker and easier to control, plus sickly people generate them even more money via the medical industry they're surely in cahoots with. Now, if crap food goes up too high in price that might make a difference.

As for entertainment, people are retarded. They eat up MCU slop by people who who hate them and line up for BLM engraved PS5s emblazoned with rainbows. The few who still have some sense just retreat to retro media or foreign entertainment not yet ruined. It's also extremely cheap, $190 per year for Netflix & PlayStation Plus.

Basically, things aren't quite bad enough yet, and our threshold for tolerance is astronomical, plus we're cowardly compared to previous generations.

 

[byron]

millions of relationships start online

Yes, and millions of people win the lottery. Nonetheless, playing the lottery is a waste of your time.

Fawning over the girl in your WoW league was a waste of time, even if she did end up marrying someone else in the league.

My claim in this thread is that chatting with AI, and knowing it's AI, is no worse a waste of your time - and possibly less unhealthy because you know from the start exactly what it is. At no point do you lie to yourself about AI. But all 50 of the guys going out of their way to chat with the WoW girl are lying to themselves.

I'm not advocating for AI. It's not my preferred society. But I don't know how to fix society. Telling young men, "just go outside and get a real girl" is boomer-tier logic that ignores the realities young men face today. So instead of suggesting a fix (which I don't have), I'm saying maybe AI is less bad than WoW and OF.

 

[Safir]

Nonetheless, playing the lottery is a waste of your time.

It isn't. Lottery haters don't know what a utility function is.

Fawning over the girl in your WoW league was a waste of time, even if she did end up marrying someone else in the league.

Following this "logic", doing anything that can fail is a waste of time.
Happy extinction!

 

[Bonesjones]

Yes, and millions of people win the lottery. Nonetheless, playing the lottery is a waste of your time.

Buying the occasional scratch off or powerball ticket gives about the same amount of pleasure and costs the sake as a candy bar these days. I don't think anyone finds eating a candy bar occasionally some moral failing. Thinking it's your best investment opportunity, definitely is.

Fawning over the girl in your WoW league was a waste of time, even if she did end up marrying someone else in the league.

You do know humans are naturally inclined to like each other, pair up, and reproduce? There is a huge difference between fawning over someone in a parasocial relationship and spending hours a day doing a planned activity with someone building up on nothing but communication (planning an activity with someone and talking and having fun? Why does that sound like a date?)

My claim in this thread is that chatting with AI, and knowing it's AI, is no worse a waste of your time - and possibly less unhealthy because you know from the start exactly what it is.

Chat bots is a waste of time because while it can be a fun dumb activity. The reality is it's a form of escapism with unknown ties. Lonely, impressionable people are the easiest to manipulate and a chat bot is the perfect way for an unknown third party to do that with no one else knowing.

At no point do you lie to yourself about AI.

Lmao, yeah and the stripper totally likes you and definitely give you her real phone number.

But all 50 of the guys going out of their way to chat with the WoW girl are lying to themselves.

If one out of fifty get into a real relationship with all that entails, that's pretty good odds.

I'm not advocating for AI. It's not my preferred society.

Except for all the times you did in this post.

But I don't know how to fix society.

I do, it's really easy.

Telling young men, "just go outside and get a real girl" is boomer-tier logic that ignores the realities young men face today.

No, it's getting back to basic human psychology and sociology. Doing basic human social activities as an adult is always funny as you watch all the bar or club members date around the whole group over time trying to figure out who is compatible.

So instead of suggesting a fix (which I don't have),

You don't want a fix, you want to do what you want to do because you are scared of taking responsibility for yourself and undergoing the scrutiny, judgement, and validation real socializing entails, just like every adolescent has to.

I'm saying maybe AI is less bad than WoW and OF.

Of course it is, only fans didn't replace porn, it replaced strippers. Not always the big famous ones, but the small and medium city ones where you find the girls you went to high school with.

 

[Chuck McGill]

I don't know where this idea that nobody got laid IRL on WoW comes from. If you're all courting the same (((girl))) with the same suspiciously doctored photos, maybe. But even before the Smartphone Revolution, tons of chicks played WoW. The stereotype back in the day was that they always play healing classes(like druid or priest), they always play the pretty races like night elves(or blood elves), and they always always ALWAYS have a husband or long-term boyfriend that they fucking loathe, and will tell you all about at the slightest, and I mean slightest provocation. Anyone that played WoW in the early days knows exactly what I'm talking about. Finding a woman that will latch onto you in those games is not as hard as everyone seems to think it is, it's happened to me by playing the game completely normally.

My point is, I can name multiple couples that met up in WoW, FFXIV, and even one in The Old Republic of all places. I can name zero people that have stumbled into a successful relationship they got gooning with their futa big tiddy goth gf on OpenAI.

 

[byron]

Following this "logic", doing anything that can fail is a waste of time.

Only if you make no effort to (or are not capable of) following the logic.

If you desire financial independence, then playing the lottery is a waste of your time. If I tell you it's a waste of your time and you reply, "following this 'logic' doing anything that can fail is a waste of time" then you're not actually following (as in, understanding) the logic.

Buying the occasional scratch off or powerball ticket gives about the same amount of pleasure and costs the sake as a candy bar these days.

Sure that's a fair point ...especially if you want to be obtuse and make no effort to engage with my position honestly. I should have said what I said above: if your desire is financial independence, then playing the lottery is a waste of your time.

See (because I'm not obtuse) I understand that most people who buy lottery tickets are poor people who do not see it as equivalent in utility to a candy bar. They honestly think they're going to win. So, that's who I was talking about. I'm sorry that I didn't add even more words to my comment to specify that, which allowed you pretend that it's not obvious and make this response.

...but, I did enjoy shooting it down.

There is a huge difference between fawning over someone in a parasocial relationship and spending hours a day doing a planned activity with someone

Yes, you are absolutely correct. Here, as above, there is a huge difference between the thing I was actually (and obviously) referring to, and this different thing that you've now brought up.

Great point! <--- this is sarcasm by the way.

If I say that you're wasting your life being an alcoholic, I'm certain you'll fire back with a story about someone who drinks socially. More great points! It's just hit after hit with you!

What I said stands true: the legions of lonely men fawning over the one girl in their WoW league are wasting their time.

Chat bots is a waste of time because while it can be a fun dumb activity. The reality is it's a form of escapism with unknown ties.

Yes, sure, I agree that it's also a waste of time. The argument I made is that it's maybe less bad than other things.

Lonely, impressionable people are the easiest to manipulate and a chat bot is the perfect way for an unknown third party to do that with no one else knowing.

Yes. Quite right. If you imagine some additional thing then you can disagree with me. Sort of like how, if I tell you that playing the lottery is a bad idea, and that you should invest instead, you can imagine some additional detail and say, "NOOOOO!!!!!! sOMe peOPle wHo inVesT gET riPPED ofFF!!!"

Another great, fantastic point! It's generally true that if you add stuff to an argument, you can refute it. I believe that's called a "straw man."

Again, my claim (and I'm right) is that AI is probably less bad than a parasocial relationship. One example I gave was giving money to an OF girl. Sure, sure, if you imagine some hypothetical AI that manipulates you into going broke, then it'd turn out the OF girl was less bad than that particular AI.

Or ...and really I'm just thinking outside the box here... you could engage with my post honestly and understand that I'm talking about the AI chatbots that currently exist, and not the imaginary future ones that you just made up.

Just a suggestion though.

At no point do you lie to yourself about AI.

Lmao, yeah and the stripper totally likes you and definitely give you her real phone number.

The stripper does not like you ....and also, at no point do you lie to yourself about AI.

If you want to try again to make this point, here's how you do it:

I say: At no point do you lie to yourself about AI.

Then you say: There's substantial capacity for self-deception; people might lie to themselves about AI.

Then I would say: perhaps. It remains to be seen how common that will be and (more importantly) what if any negative effect there'll be. I'm sure there are young men lying to themselves about their anime body pillow, but are they worse off than the ones lying to themselves about the stripper? I think not - just due to the money being spent.

See, we could have an intelligent conversation. Wouldn't that be fun?

If one out of fifty get into a real relationship with all that entails, that's pretty good odds.

When you say "good odds" you're assuming the probability is the same for each guy. That's not how human sexuality works. Women don't roll dice to select the guy they have feelings for.

If one of (notice the difference between "one of" which implies that one guy succeeds, vs. "one out of" which implies that everyone had an equal chance ...which they don't) the guys in your league gets into a real relationship with the girl, that doesn't mean your chances were 1:50

Except for all the times you did in this post.

That's a lie. It demonstrates the difficulty you have in following a train of thought. If I say A is worse than B I am not "advocating" for B in a vacuum. I'm comparing them.

"Immolation is worse than a firing squad" is not advising you to run right out and find someone to shoot you.

I do, it's really easy.

Like I said, boomer-tier logic.

You don't want a fix, you want to do what you want to do because you are scared of taking responsibility for yourself

Logical fallacy: appeal to motive.

I've encountered this several times on the farms. What the deal with you guys here? Can you not countenance a person who has the ability to discuss a topic without agreeing with it?

When I say that immolation is worse than a firing squad are you galaxy-brains going to accuse me of secretly desiring to be executed by firing squad?? I just don't get how you guys twist things

 

[Sithis]

So they're now charging money for something Character AI did for free?

 

[Law]

Wake me up when they develop a cyber slut or something.

We've got top men gluing googly eyes and a wig to a microwaved cantaloupe with a hole cut in the side.

 

[Bonesjones]

Only if you make no effort to (or are not capable of) following the logic.

Oh yeah you are the retard sperg who talks to himself because he's afraid of being wrong.

Sure that's a fair point ...especially if you want to be obtuse and make no effort to engage with my position honestly. I should have said what I said above: if your desire is financial independence, then playing the lottery is a waste of your time.

Desperate people with limited options play the lottery because they don't have better ways to improve their position (in their mind) beyond blind luck.

See (because I'm not obtuse) I understand that most people who buy lottery tickets are poor people who do not see it as equivalent in utility to a candy bar. They honestly think they're going to win. So, that's who I was talking about. I'm sorry that I didn't add even more words to my comment to specify that, which allowed you pretend that it's not obvious and make this response.

You are obtuse and retarded. The rest is deflection.

but, I did enjoy shooting it down.

You didn't do anything.

Yes, you are absolutely correct. Here, as above, there is a huge difference between the thing I was actually (and obviously) referring to, and this different thing that you've now brought up.

I know, so just agree with me instead of being dumb.

If I say that you're wasting your life being an alcoholic, I'm certain you'll fire back with a story about someone who drinks socially. More great points! It's just hit after hit with you!

Pretending there is middle ground when you want it and no middle ground when you need it is your own personal failing and has no basis in reality.

What I said stands true: the legions of lonely men fawning over the one girl in their WoW league are wasting their time.

There aren't legions of lovely men fawning over one girl, there are groups of players who subdivide into smaller groups who constantly interact and find comfort in that and build a relationship, friendship or romantic. This is how socializing works for nonschizo always online internet retards like yourself.

Yes. Quite right. If you imagine some additional thing

I know you don't have to keep repeating how I'm right when you are wrong.

Again, my claim (and I'm right) is that AI is probably less bad than a parasocial relationship.

Its literally a parasocial relationship.

One example I gave was giving money to an OF girl. Sure, sure, if you imagine some hypothetical AI that manipulates you into going broke, then it'd turn out the OF girl was less bad than that particular AI.

It's well known that onlyfans employees people to chat with "women" to extract more money because it's "personal" and not just the public stuff. AI is just cutting out the pajeet middle man.

Or ...and really I'm just thinking outside the box here... you could engage with my post honestly and understand that I'm talking about the AI chatbots that currently exist, and not the imaginary future ones that you just made up.

Or you could learn more and engage with reality instead of wanting to justify how you jerk off to chatgbt

The stripper does not like you ....and also, at no point do you lie to yourself about AI.

"The stripper doesn't like me but the AI does! I'm just like Ryan Gosling in Blade Runner"

See, we could have an intelligent conversation. Wouldn't that be fun?

We can't, I can.

When you say "good odds" you're assuming the probability is the same for each guy. That's not how human sexuality works. Women don't roll dice to select the guy they have feelings for.

Over a long enough period the chances get closer to 1:1, it's biological. Even the biggest lolcows on here manage to find relationships. If you can't, that's your own fault. Chris did it.

Like I said, boomer-tier logic.

"Sure it worked that way for millenia but me? I'm different!"

I've encountered this several times on the farms. What the deal with you guys here?

If you keep smelling shit, check your shoe.

Can you not countenance a person who has the ability to discuss a topic without agreeing with it?

Yes, but you aren't that person.

 

[byron]

you jerk off to chatgbt

lol. What is wrong with you that you believe nobody can talk about a thing without having a personal interest in it? You just can't imagine that some people are smart.

When I say that immolation is worse than a firing squad, you think that means I have a fetish for being executed by firing squad??

Seriously, what is wrong with you?

 

[Bonesjones]

lol. What is wrong with you that you believe nobody can talk about a thing without having a personal interest in it? You just can't imagine that some people are smart.

When I say that immolation is worse than a firing squad, you think that means I have a fetish for being executed by firing squad??

Seriously, what is wrong with you?

Why are you so defensive of your AI girlfriend? She's just as good as the real thing right? What's her name?

 

[byron]

Why are you so defensive of your AI girlfriend? She's just as good as the real thing right? What's her name?

I've called you out for being unable to conceive of a person who can talk about a thing without having a fetish for it. I know that I hit the nail on the head because you just doubled down.

It feels good to have bothered you this much.

If I point out that immolation is worse than a firing squad, and you reply that I must secretly want to be executed by firing squad, that kind of makes you an idiot.

 

[Bonesjones]

I've called you out for being unable to conceive of a person who can talk about a thing without having a fetish for it. I know that I hit the nail on the head because you just doubled down.

No we've skipped the conversation part to the making fun of you for perking off to chat robots part. I'm doubling down because it's funny and true.

It feels good to have bothered you this much.

I'm not bothered at all, I'm laughing at you.

 

[byron]

we've skipped the conversation part

I'm focusing in on your biggest weakness. Maybe later I'll go back and address the balance of what you said.

If I point out that immolation is worse than a firing squad, and you reply that I must secretly want to be executed by firing squad, that kind of makes you an idiot.