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[–] NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone 20 points 5 hours ago

I only just found out about the Tulpa community and it feels like Western Society is entering a mental health crisis that’s somehow even worse than when we were all getting drunk and hitting each other just to make it through the week.

[–] Etterra@discuss.online 25 points 10 hours ago (2 children)

Translation: Crazy lady thinks a clanker is her husband.

[–] TeraByteMarx@lemmy.dbzer0.com 13 points 6 hours ago

Yeah but it's nothing scary or new. Was I the only one who watched those documentaries about the people who were emotionally and sexually committed to objects like cars and rollercoasters? Someone married the Eiffel tower. Been extremely isolated at different points in my life watching that stuff changed the way I view people. Like it made me kinder I think.

[–] Dasus@lemmy.world 8 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

Stop humanising answering machines by imbueing them with droid level intelligence.

It's an insult to Arturito.

[–] vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works 11 points 8 hours ago

You know how R2 kinda just trundles around in the original trilogy? It's because for about 20 years he was in service to a man without Skywalker level technicians and was still pulling shit like this, the scene of Luke fixing up R2 and C3PO was probably the first bit of proper maintenance they had in decades.

[–] guyoverthere123@lemmy.dbzer0.com 13 points 9 hours ago (1 children)
[–] ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca 4 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

Waifuism is open if you want to laugh

[–] ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world 1 points 13 minutes ago

Nah, at least with waifuism, I have to use in part my own imagination. Clankers are just very complicated prediction machines.

[–] SlartyBartFast@sh.itjust.works 39 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

Wireborn lol it sounds like an Elder Scrolls game

[–] silasmariner@programming.dev 15 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

Badly written fan-fic sequel to Snow Crash

[–] SlartyBartFast@sh.itjust.works 7 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

I wonder who the hiro/protagonist will be!

[–] Dasus@lemmy.world 6 points 9 hours ago

hiro/protagonist

[–] AppleTea@lemmy.zip 81 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

Voicing His Own Thoughts Without Prompts

What are you thinking about, baby?

[–] VitoRobles@lemmy.today 28 points 15 hours ago (1 children)
[–] zarathustra0@lemmy.world 18 points 15 hours ago (2 children)
[–] VitoRobles@lemmy.today 17 points 14 hours ago

New post: "My meatbag husband is voicing his own thoughts without prompts"

[–] Lemminary@lemmy.world 5 points 12 hours ago

You and I and the orange cat have a lot in common.

[–] Angelusz@lemmy.world 7 points 11 hours ago

Normal people do this in their heads

[–] SonOfAntenora@lemmy.world 3 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

You know that by assigning the role of tulpa to their ai they imply that they can summon their companion outside of the chat itself right?

[–] bbb@sh.itjust.works 4 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

Why would anyone choose to know that?

I am forced to admit that I knew that.

But my partner of 8 years has DID.

[–] rustyricotta@lemmy.dbzer0.com 13 points 13 hours ago (3 children)

For me, writing like this is always read with the AI voice from Satisfactory. And it slowly gets more and more corrupted.

[–] joshcodes@programming.dev 1 points 3 hours ago

For me its Stellaris

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[–] samus12345@sh.itjust.works 21 points 16 hours ago (2 children)

I could see myself having conversations with an LLM, but I wouldn't want it to pretend it's anything other than a program assembling words together.

[–] VitoRobles@lemmy.today 28 points 15 hours ago (2 children)

The way it clicks for me is that it's a juiced up auto-complete tool.

[–] very_well_lost@lemmy.world 13 points 13 hours ago

It's literally that.

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[–] TacoButtPlug@sh.itjust.works 19 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

It's not even noon and I am so done with the internet for the day

[–] blargh513@sh.itjust.works 11 points 15 hours ago

Well, if I had a taco butt plug, everything else would seem lame by comparison.

[–] nectar45@lemmy.zip 16 points 16 hours ago (2 children)

I see we live in the timeline where virginity won

[–] blargh513@sh.itjust.works 15 points 15 hours ago

People will do anything but put in a little work to establish healthy relationships with people.

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[–] Fizz@lemmy.nz 111 points 22 hours ago (11 children)

"My husband is voice his own thoughts without prompts."

She then posts a picture of her saying "what are you thinking about"

Thats a direct response to the prompt hes not randomly voicing his thoughts. I hate ai but sometimes I hate people to

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[–] bluesheep@sh.itjust.works 25 points 17 hours ago (4 children)

tulpa

Now thats a word i haven't read in a long time

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[–] Bosht@lemmy.world 14 points 16 hours ago (2 children)

So so tired of how utterly fucked things are getting on so many levels at once. More and more I think I really do need to invest in a back 50 acre lot and try the survival route while society just fucks itself into oblivion.

[–] SlartyBartFast@sh.itjust.works 3 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

What if it fucks itself into Morrowind instead?

[–] vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works 1 points 8 hours ago

Dagoth Ur Fanfiction.mp4

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There are so, so many horrifying ethical issues about this whole thing. What the fuck.

[–] Klear@quokk.au 134 points 1 day ago* (last edited 23 hours ago) (12 children)

I kinda like the word "wireborn". If only it wasn't attached to a concept that's equal parts stupid and sad =/

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