I do wonder what happens when the “in a relationship with ChatGPT” people become a meaningful demographic. Subreddit looks mostly female, which isn’t what most people expected, and usually middle-aged. A lot of the rhetoric seems media-inspired, taken whole cloth from movies and television shows about mean bigoted humans oppressing robot kind by saying they don’t have souls.
I would bet that there are a bunch of guys out there obsessed with anime grok, but they’re not inclined to try to turn it into some kind of civil rights struggle for various reasons[1].
I think if XAI had leaned into something a little less overt and crass, they’d have been able to capture a decent share of the waifu crowd. Instead of a half naked 3D model tied to an ERP bot, something like those old Gatebox ads, where the avatar is visually appealing but never wears anything beyond PG, and was marketed as a companion rather than anything X-rated.
I do wonder what happens when the “in a relationship with ChatGPT” people become a meaningful demographic. Subreddit looks mostly female, which isn’t what most people expected, and usually middle-aged. A lot of the rhetoric seems media-inspired, taken whole cloth from movies and television shows about mean bigoted humans oppressing robot kind by saying they don’t have souls.
I would bet that there are a bunch of guys out there obsessed with anime grok, but they’re not inclined to try to turn it into some kind of civil rights struggle for various reasons[1].
I think if XAI had leaned into something a little less overt and crass, they’d have been able to capture a decent share of the waifu crowd. Instead of a half naked 3D model tied to an ERP bot, something like those old Gatebox ads, where the avatar is visually appealing but never wears anything beyond PG, and was marketed as a companion rather than anything X-rated.