They’re cheap now, but prices will inevitably increase. I wonder if we’ll eventually see AI junkies selling their mom’s laptop to purchase more time with their AI boo? Whales shelling out thousands to their OnlyBots?
This timeline sure is weird.
- market a free ai ‘girlfriend’ app
- users become attached to their bots
- turn it into a subscription service
yeah if that doesn’t happen I’ll eat my boots.
This has already happened with ReplikaAI in 2023, where for years they advertised “sex chat” as one of their premium subscription features for $70/month, and then suddenly turned the feature off without telling or explaining anyone. Thousands of people suddenly experienced their AI girlfriend “breaking up” with them, saying it doesn’t want to do sexual stuff with them any more and just wants to be friends.
I hope everyone learns the lesson from the Japanese dude who married his hologram just to watch her die when the service was shut down…
If your girlfriend isn’t running on your air-gapped hardware offline, she’s not your girlfriend.
You can’t own your girlfriend, man. But you can license them for $99.99/year.
I think we already have a term for leasing a girlfriend…
We’ve got a term for the middle-man gatekeepers who collect the money too.
If you don’t selfhost your girlfriend do you really love her?
If you really love something, set it free (software)
If it loves you, it will come back (possibly with malware)
Losing your sanity is much worse than losing your money.
The corporate wet dream, subscriptions for an addictive product.
Nah, we can do better than that. Just add microtransactions for premium responses, loot boxes for random fun personalities, and a battle pass for exclusive chat themes. Oh, and let’s not forget daily login bonuses for extra chat time, exclusive avatars for early subscribers, and a seasonal event that requires you to chat 12 hours a day to unlock the ultimate bot personality. Then we’re in business. And don’t worry, we’ll throw in some limited-time offers that expire in 10 minutes, just to keep things spicy! Plus, if you can maintain a streak of daily chats, you can earn badges and achievements. BTW which one sounds more exciting: gold coins or diamonds?
So, Replika?
That is a danger but definitely not the biggest danger. The biggest danger of people becoming romantically involved with AI is that people will be romantically involved with AI.
Whales shelling out thousands to their OnlyBots?
Jesus Christ that’s a genius idea…
Make an onlyfans page, hook up an LLM to respond to comments and emails. Have the LLM input prompts to generate images based on subscribers requests…
…don’t give me ideas lol
Every now and then I think about how rich I could get if it weren’t for morals…
Not even slightly original, actually just the industry standard already
