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Where once people were duped by soft-focus photos and borrowed chat-up lines, now they have to watch out for computer-generated charm. But it’s one thing to use a witty phrase – another thing entirely to build a whole fake persona …

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[–] belated_frog_pants@beehaw.org 2 points 2 hours ago

If chatgpt answers convince you to fuck you need better standards

[–] AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space 7 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

The next step is to have a social network where your chatbots date other users’ chatbots for you, and you can scroll through their updates

[–] jjjalljs@ttrpg.network 9 points 7 hours ago

to meet the man she’d spent the last three weeks opening up to.

First off, don't chat for three weeks before a date. That's a terrible idea. You're going to build up a faulty model of who they are and then be jolted when you meet them in real life. Which is exactly what happened here.

Second, to all the people using chat gpt, I don't know how to say this nicely but fucking git gud. What a bunch of sad sacks that can't have a conversation, can't read a wikipedia article, can't even try their honest best.

a workaround for what he sees as the coded jargon of modern dating. “Like, what do you mean ‘What’s my attachment style?’” he balks. “Every girl on the apps has this thing about ‘love languages’ – it’s just gibberish

Is it though? Take five minutes to read about it if it's so ubiquitous. What a sack of shit.

I'm a pretty average guy and I was getting 1d4-1 dates per week just by matching with people and asking them out. You really don't need to do more than be genuine, present, and interested in them.

[–] GingerGoodness@lemmy.world 15 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

On Discord, a chat platform popular with gamers and tech communities, he came across channels dedicated to AI where other single men were exchanging tips about how to prompt ChatGPT to generate effective dating messages. “So, for instance, someone said that if you start a chat with a girl by asking her a list of questions – favourite film, dream holiday, that kind of thing – then paste her answers into ChatGPT, it would craft replies that would make you sound like her perfect match.” It proved effective. “It got me a lot more dates than I was getting before.”

If my spouse snuffs it before I do then I'm dying alone.

[–] khannie@lemmy.world 1 points 6 hours ago

Same. Dating in the modern era looks terrifying.

[–] FishFace@lemmy.world 21 points 11 hours ago (2 children)

I'm planning to go even further and outsource the dating and intimacy to the bot was well - I'll just sit back and relax!

[–] DScratch@sh.itjust.works 7 points 8 hours ago

Chat GPT, experience this dramatic irony for me!

[–] vane@lemmy.world 6 points 10 hours ago

I bought a coffin, lay down in it and outsourced my entire life. Never felt more comfortable in my life.

[–] BarrelsBallot@lemmygrad.ml 4 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

Here we have the real terror of AI be it Super, General, or LLM. Throw out the layers of fear regarding power consumption, job loss, militarization, and potential human focused hostility surrounding any sort of sentience and you get AI's current and projected reality- the outsourcing of tasks that require wisdom, skill, and critical thought.

The average person will be long dead before a cartoonishly evil super intelligence could ever snuff them out. We will become a people freed from the friction and strain that builds mental muscle, and justifies the folds in our brains- all so we can have more time for unfettered consumption.

[–] fishy@lemmy.today 2 points 6 hours ago

As a person who loves learning and building new skills, I find this absolutely abhorrent. If you never do anything challenging or difficult, you'll eventually be so far out of the skill curve that you'll lack the base skills necessary to develop more complex skills. These people are on their way to a combined Idiocracy/Wall-E future and I hate that they're dragging the rest of us down with them.