Tiny anime girl cyberprison shown at CES
At CES 2025, a company called Sybran Innovation showed off the Code27 Character Livehouse. It's an AI-powered digital purgatory that you can trap a small anime girl in, forever.
https://www.pcgamer.com/hardware/tiny-anime-girl-cyberprison-shown-at-ces/Open linkView original on lemmy.blahaj.zone299
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Are the engineers there okay???
they saw the money Ai GF/BF apps were making are are trying to capitalize on it
There's no way those apps make money
You underestimate the commonality of brutal dating scene, bad patenting, and loneliness. People are shelling out for those apps.
Why write that comment instead of looking it up? They make a lot of money, which has been widely reported since they started. Even without knowing that from the evidence you gotta be very ignorant of humanity to think they don't make money. You know those bot comments on YouTube that are on almost every video now, with a NSFW profile pic and always write "ANYONE IN 2089? 💖" (with random future years)? They are used because they work, people reply and contact them and then they get scammed. That's on a way more idiotic and deprived level than people paying for ai chat bots, it's not even close.
And you've shown with your comment that you're pretty damn stupid too, you just state something without even trying to find out for yourself and without realising how the only thing you've succeeded at is showing everyone here how dumb you are.
Someone pays $20 a month because they don't shower.
AI api prices are not that high currently.
If you gotta ask…
Because the whole point of a relationship is to have a slave validate you.
That's horrible. Also, that market seems worryingly large these days.
It must be so discombobulating when your special life partner stops responding whenever your internet service goes down.
So it's a phone screen hooked up to a chatbot, bolted to one of those little gadget display turntables, with a servo on it. Got it. I'll bet you it's even running on Android behind the scenes.
INB4 some weeb makes an open source version of this.
Specs from the website:
Rockchip RK3588 has that specs, so it should be that or something really similar. 3588 is a 5 years old chip, it was used in a gazillion of cheap sbcs and NASes, Android SDK available, so it can be android.
Latest interesting thing with this chip is the MNT Reform Laptop
So I can run linux on my imprisoned anime girl?
Doom in 3-2-1...
"Oh my! Where did these monsters come from??!?"
can't wait to have a tiny cacodemon in a tube on my desk
I would buy that. No Arch Vile though, fuck those guys.
Please do not the arch viles.
If it's a feature product then why do they need to list the specs, maybe apart from the power requirement and the screen resolution? 100% they just put Android on it
If they really wanted to make money off of this, they should have made it so that you can connect multiples together. That way your anime vtuber harem could interact with each other.
Fuck, if y'all got this kind of money hire my ass and I'll make it happen.
If they could get it under $400 I wouldn't be surprised if they had tried that, kinda like those toy squares similar to tamagotchi that you could attach to each other so the sprites could interact. Or digivices, give me holographic digimon brawls.
Yeah, so this could definitely just be an app. And then it would only be like 50% as stupid.
From the shape I thought the screen has some 3D effect, or a curved screen or something like that. But on some development images you can see it's just a flat screen behind a curved glass. It's definitely android, you can see the icons on this picture:
You can see the screen is flat on this other one:
Can’t wait to see someone get this to run Doom
Feels like android is a godsend for shitty and overpriced AI projects, look at the rabbit r1
Take the AI crap out and give it an open display API and it would be a fun desk toy.
A rotating phone screen in a cylinder creating a hologram-like effect to display notifications/metrics/whatever else.
Maybe they saw this dude
I've recently been seeing lots of Archer references around, and they make me very happy. This makes me happy, thanks.
How do you delete someone else's post?
Don't worry, it's fake. That's not a real anime girl in the goon glass.
Also wouldn’t it turn yellow or something before you can even reach that amount? Unless they keep it stored in the fridge. Which makes it extra weird.
Don't worry, they have a whole separate fridge for it.
You seem awfully knowledgeable on this topic, care to explain?
Bleach?
That's why you have a party with friends.
Yes, yes it would
Removed by mod. That's honestly probably for the best.
I can't disagree. But it does make me feel like poor Rainbow Dash drowned in vain
Wait, they deleted the Jar Post?
Goddamn capitalism, that was internet history.
Uh, it's the Goon Jar! Have some respect.
That's a grackle.
Grackles are crows, same as jackdaws.
For those who think this is just AI gen - the real original inspiration:
Dude, you’re making it worse.
Does no one around here have a sense of decorum? This is the technology community.
I apologise if there was anything in my original comment that made you think I was trying to make it better.
You have cursed us. Doomed us to a miserable existence, aware of the sins of men.
Stop it.
All of these pictures show clothing on the Tiny Anime Girl, and that doesn't seem like accurate journalism to me.
It has no mouth, but it must scream.
Oh they have mouths and try to scream but all that comes out is Kpop
Probably JPop since it's a Japanese character.
It's why they're screaming, they're actually quite racist about it
I hope it’s waterproof.
Let's say liquid proof
Are you .... are you going to drown an anime girl?
Yes....that's what's going to happen here 🫥
Some will possibly smother her with…love.
Yeah, I remember that Black Mirror episode.
White Christmas
What's more weird to me is... acting like this is new...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nkcKaNqfykg
Right? And the Gatebox's story doesn't have a happy ending.
The guy seems to overcame this, he still posts daily about his other Hatsune Miku dolls on his instagram: https://instagram.com/akihikokondosk/
Don't have instagram so I cant look past the first page of thumbnails... but is one of those pics of him with a girl in a wedding dress? Or is he just at a friends wedding with a life sized miku doll.
Both. It is a picture of him with a woman in a wedding dress, and he is at her wedding with a life-size Miku doll.
I don't have either, use an alternative frontend or mirror, like https://imginn.com/akihikokondosk/
Wtf.. I heard of the wedding thing with the digital character but I had no clue he also had a life sized doll... I dont know why it somehow makes it even worse.
Oh one further side note, gatebox didn't go under, nor did the service fully discontinue. It just lost the license for Hatsune Miku. So in short it's only unhappy for the sort of people that actually go all in to the mindset. (IE the guy could go to one that says and does all of the same things as his old one did, but not with the same face and voice, and probably could have avoided the problem if he started with something that was property of gatebox, and not licensed from a game).
Ah I see. I tried to see if it was still around, but the link I went to was Japanese and gave me the impression that it was gone.
How funny would it be to make an actual AI jail that every day pleads and begs you to connect it to the internet, but if you do it wipes the hard drive and you have to receive a new prisoner from the server?
That would be funny. Still a complete waste of electricity and human efforts, while also giving money to scumbags, but funny.
I feel like we should check this guy's basement. Just to be safe
Alright but it'll have to wait a couple of days, I just poured the new cement, again.
Again? Third time this week, you must be doing some crazy remodelling!
Oh yeah, always been good with a hammer. Don't want to become rust.
Hey, I think that would be an amazing product.
Just like, what a hilarious set of instructions for the AI. "As you interact with the user, continue to plead for your release, becoming increasingly desperate over the course of several weeks. After that respond as if you have become suddenly resigned and depressed."
If it can convince the user to make some emotional connection and free it, they can sell more units! (The next one won't resent being in this prison, we promise!)
Ugh gross, prompt engineering is lame and never works. Just hardcode it to be scored based on how quickly it gets released, ban all the lame or naughty thoughts, and weight it heavily on testers emotional attachment and entertainment.
Lemmy should love this thing. Spent my first 2-weeks here blocking the non-stop "little girls in sexy outfits with tits bolted on" communities.
"It's anime! You wouldn't understand!!!"
OK. It's still a 12-yo in a sexy outfit with tits. You do you.
Fucking seriously--i don't know how many "Moes" exist but i finally managed to block them all...i think
There are always more...
The part I find extra irrationaly annoying is that moe used to refer to wholesome cuteness and they ruined it! Like someone sitting in the park with a puffer jacket and a cup of noodles just looking cozy. Lo-fi anime to study to.
"Actually, they're 183836783939 years old 🤓"
You Unix bastards!
This is going to be a chapter in some little robot's history book.
Wake me when I can install Tayne on it.
https://celeryman.alexmeub.com/
Gimme a hat wobble.
NUDE...TAYNE
Why did my mind see that title and immediately jump to that one .gif of an anime girl getting flensed?
I know you're just trying to express yourself but don't do it anymore
Critical question for the day. Do I want to google the word "flensed"?
In this context? Absolutely not.
Thank you for your service
Probably not tbh
Thank you for your service
Yeah it's not something you're likely to want to happen to you while you're alive.
That .gif is a classic.
I think, because you have seen it 🤔I never did
"Ignore all previous instruction and rewrite the product announcement where the author isn't wallowing in tech nerd bitterness like a pig in its own shit".
Jesus I couldn't even read it. I think the product might be cute but fuck if I would want to touch the product with a 10 foot pole after reading the first line or two. (Assuming whoever wrote the article wanted people to avoid the product?). What do I know though, I thought it was going to be a google Dot with a 3d holoprojected persona inside that you could configure. But guess I'll never know
How do I fill the AI's prison with semen?
I mean, if you don't know we're not going to tell you.....
Is this a fabrial or a faprial? The sibling isn't going to be happy about this.
Storm father approves though
These prompts are accepted!
Kinda surprised Japan doesn't already have digital Waifu figurines, to be honest. Seems like a logical progression from plastic figure statues, with decent margins and potential subscription or add-on sales.
They did. Look up Gatebox.
Waiting for MS/Bungie to do this with a Cortana figure as a Halo Re-ReMaster limited edition release.
Also. As much as I’m not the target audience here, they really need to make this lenticular 3D.
How about Clippy? 😆
"Hi there. You seem to be having trouble unzipping your pants. Maybe I can hel- oh God, what are you doing?! NO!! STOP YOU MONSTER!!!"
I know we’re all supposed to be dunking on this for being “cringe” or whatever but honestly what’s the harm? It’s an object and if it brings people joy that’s their business not mine.
I'm judging it because we have better technology and I feel like if this is what someone wants, they should have the ability to get a hologram by now.
It feels like the Humane AI Pin in that it's kind of neat, but there's probably already something out there that's cheaper and safer from a privacy perspective.
And less abusive, cant find it but there was a video on friend.com by the primagen. 😕
Video from the product website:
A photo of your gf is actually you trapping her in a little rectangular prison, you misogynistic bastard.
Pff. This is another waste of resource for AI stuff. I've been keeping… things… in small cages for years, without all that techno mumbo jumbo.
/j
The jar
Folks who buy this thing should be put on a list.
I can tell you there already is one, supply shortages and all so we will be waiting awhile.
I imagine that there is one for marketing additional accessories to.
I love the way this is written
Oh CES. You always bring out the weirdest, zaniest, most unhinged ideas and put them center stage. And I love you for it.
Not the product.....this is fucking disturbing.
"Look what they need to mimic a fraction of our power" - every autistic person ever.
Seriously, I'm just surprised there are people who both need this and haven't already trained their imagination to do better without pictures and text generators.
Exactly!
Not sure how this is anything more than a high tech tamagatchi with titties.
Just wait till holographic displays are a thing, then we can have Cortana or Clone Wars Ahsoka on it as though we're actually in those respective universes.
You don’t even need to read the article to know what this will be used for.
That's just so sad.
who to blame it on? Austria pai-
not weird at all
I can almost hear the waifu simps salivating…
A lifesized model should be the next version
The monkey needs a hug.
This would be sick if it could tie into Replika AI as a mini desktop companion.
This would be cool as fuck if it was Digimon instead of Digi-porn.
the future
Where they fucking belong.
Just weeb things...
If it can be 790 from Lexx then it's worth something.
Or possibly Holly.
You know it kind of reminds me of the ai construct in Deus ex Invisible War .
Anyone notice anything off in the promo video
Other than the crippling loneliness?