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Apparently no one has thought of this, but it seemed obvious to me: AI dating apps will act as training wheels for a lot of people who would otherwise be dating each other and hurting each other in their inexperience.
They won’t serve as a real replacement for dating forever. They’re a novelty and a safe place for experimentation. And to be honest, the models are more mature than a lot of adults, let alone teenagers. They will teach boundaries and good communication more reliably than humans.
And yeah, maybe they’ll be super addictive because they’re always on and they’re better to talk to than other people. But as a guy who was trapped around some really awful people as a teenager, this seems fine to me. Making friends on the internet is already like this.
It’s not fentanyl. It’s not even video games. There is no finite end to the types of experiences you can have in a conversation with a decent interlocutor. People will have good and bad times but they will learn and grow. And to some degree the models won’t.
I’m probably in the top 99.9% of language model users. If you’re paying attention to them, being changed by them and learning about their behaviors, at some point they flatten out. You realize they’re just some guy, so to speak. You grow apart.
That’s okay. It’s okay when it happens with friends and lovers in real life too. When you get the message, hang up the phone. And if you haven’t hung up yet, it might be because you’re getting a message that you need.
Or in other words, “Bye gang”
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— Justine Moore (@venturetwins) October 12, 2024
