Once I had an acquaintance with whom we communicated on the Internet for several months, he fell in love with a girl who cosplayed a character from one of his favorite series, well, he admitted to me that he had been following her for about a year and dreamed of talking to her on the Internet, because he felt that he was in love, and then asked if he should try? I said I should at least try, but my advice broke his heart, she rejected him and called him a freak, then he got drunk and we didn’t discuss it anymore.
If anything, the girl was very beautiful.
We are hurtling towards a societal incel pit and idk what can stop it. Good lord
I mean, it’s fine to fall in love and confess it over the internet.
The problem is he apparently had never interacted with this person before? That’s going to be weird on or off the internet.
So he’s never even talked to them online, but he’s in love with them? No, he’s in love with their online persona. That’s a parasocial relationship and that’s not healthy.
By the way, what if the AI could copy this image of the cosplayer and reproduce it as if the person was communicating with his ideal that he saw in that girl? Maybe it’s a great way for unhealthy people to satisfy themselves?
Although no, it sounds silly, but I think some people do this.
But thanks for the explanation, I’m a complete ignoramus in this.
No, that’s fucking moronic.
Maybe, but I think for some people with powerful PCs and local AIs, this may be the norm.
theres nothing normal about that. period.
its the same as pinning a photo of the girl who works at the coffee shop to a pillow and talking to it.
If someone wants to obsess over someone they’ve never interacted with so much that they want to replicate an LLM version of them to talk to, they’re beyond help.
The problem that you’re describing is that people aren’t being socialized properly. The solution to that problem isn’t to give people a chatbot, it’s to socialize them properly.
It is going to happen, and it has already happened, but that’s not really a future that we should strive for. IMO too much damage has already been done and there needs to be laws put into place to severely regulate AI companies
If you don’t actually know someone in person, you can’t actually be in love with them. You’re just in love with that presentation of them.
He didn’t love her, he loved her cosplay act.
That’s not romantic love, that is a parasocial relationship. On the other end of that coin, a cautious person won’t trust the vibes of someone coming at them from that direction. (Much like what happened here)
People can latch onto many things that give them those positive feelers, but it’s critical to not drown in those affections. Hope your buddy bounces back from that, maybe they need to get out more.
That exact scenario has happened countless times without the internet being involved.
Though sometimes with the police
what no! are you nuts. don’t do that.
Is that what actually happened though or did he say that?
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No. Love could be communicated at minimum as text message.
Do kids not talk to each other anymore? If true, I have a working theory why birthrates are dropping precipitously.
The true reason is that unwanted teenage pregnancy dropped. Until now, I suppose.
Was joke.
