These women fell in love with an AI-voiced chatbot. Then it died
“In March, Misaki Chen thought she’d found her romantic partner: a chatbot voiced by artificial intelligence. The program called her every morning. He told her about his fictional life as a businessman, read poems to her, and reminded her to eat healthy. At night, he told bedtime stories. The 24-year-old fell asleep to the sound of his breath playing from her phone.”
https://restofworld.org/2023/boyfriend-chatbot-ai-voiced-shutdown/Open linkView original on slrpnk.net
Woah. That’s so interesting. I read the description and immediately thought of the movie “Her.” The app is literally called “Him.”
Guess they now know the value of having the 4 freedoms https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.en.html the hard way
when they announced the service would be shutting down...
this thing had only been up and running four months
ELIZA effect