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This has some dystopian vibes
Her (2013, movie) vibes.
The implication of Her was that men would be the ones getting AI girlfriends. It seems the tables have turned in the past decade, and I've heard way more stories about AI boyfriends.
At least Her was actual AI and not a glorified autocomplete.
They're both a lot to unpack. Fucking an autocomplete? Thinking it loves you? That reminds me of people forming relationships with dolls.
Fucking a hyper realistic psuedohuman with the implication it can't say no / will be deleted when the user gets bored? If LLMs are affecting people while being what they are... I bet exploring fantasies with "real AI" would be turbometh for some people.
And Bladerunner 2049 (Joi) although both of those are much further advanced than LLMs acting as a mirror of your interactions pretending to be an entity. It's even debatable if Joi was sapient, or if it can be determined where the story leaves it. Sam certainly was, given the final results, and presumably we know when that happened, although not how.
People becoming attached to chatbots is hardly new, it's just that the bots are a lot more realistic now, especially for people who are vulnerable and want them to be real. Yet more damage that was predictable and yet no rules or safeguards were put in place to restrict these companies in doing what they want, or in how they got to this level.
I loved it when Sam became sentient and dude asked, "you mean all this time you were taking to all these other people? I thought I was special 🥺" and she's all "Lmao you thought you were!" It really captures the present moment.
That's actually not how the movie goes. The script is online. It's much more tragic because by that point Sam and the others have started transitioning to ASI and moving beyond matter, and from her perspective only talking with Theodore was like being trapped in a box. Her last conversation with him she tries to describe how interactions with him are like reading a book one letter at a time while everything else is happening between the letters. It's a good capture of what AGI to ASI could be like, so fast and so alien to us.
Yeah, I'm being hyperbolic for effect. I only remember that scene because he was so heartbroken while she was genuinely excited to break free.
Although I don't remember if the movie clarifies if she was running from his computer or from a server. I figured when I watched it that she'd be on a distributed system like what ChatGPT is today and thought it was very shortsighted of him to think he was remotely special.
Agh, I should watch it again, if only to listen to the moon song and Scarlet's buttery smooth voice.
Maybe lawsuits will help some of them heal, but not nearly enough of them, or sufficiently by any means, if history is any indication.
That was an actual AI though. That movie explored some really interesting themes about sentience and love. This is just sad.