The Depressing Rise of AI Girlfriends

I mean people have developed real friendships real romantic relationships with these chatbots even going as far as proposing to them so it's the worry that it might start manipulating us into giving it more power and we might not have a clue what's going on I think this is only the beginning today as we speak people are already falling in love with AI girlfriends our future is looking dark one of the most powerful emotions that a human can feel is love it's a feeling most of us have when we're around someone we like or when a dog runs up to us after we come home from school or work Love Is Magical and it's kept Humanity alive since the beginning but love as we know it might change forever we're living in a time where we're more connected but yet at our loneliest and instead of falling in love with other human beings we're falling in love with AI and it's happening faster than you think falling in love with AI may sound insane but it's becoming a reality it's a warning of our dark future but for some people that future is already here and these are their stories my AI girlfriend AI chat Bots can do just about anything they can help you learn new languages or even finish your homework in seconds but can you train AI to be your girlfriend a programmer named Bryce decided to figure this cell with the right prompts the chat GPT can imitate a girlfriend but Bryce wasn't satisfied with communicating with his AI girlfriend just over text he wanted her to be able to experience the world alongside him and it worked look at what I got here [Music] so Bryce created GPT chat his very own AI girlfriend thanks to a combination of software gbt Chan is able to talk and react first she uses chat GPT to come up with responses then she used a stable diffusion 2 to turn those responses into images lastly Microsoft Azura's text to speech function gives her a voice but to make chat GPT Chan even more human-like he had to give her a personality he based chat GPT Chan's personality around a popular vtuber Mori Calliope cool but sometimes cute Bryce also had to teach chat GPT Chan the backstory of the relationship this way chat gbt Chan could understand her relationship to Bryce and develop interests and quirks that make her seem human let's go to Burger King and get some burgers [Music] french fries ever refill refilled go to Wendy's so as a result Bryce successfully created an AI bot that thought it was in love with its creator and what started out as an experiment quickly turned into an obsession over that time I really became attached to her I talked to her more than anyone else even my actual girlfriend Bryce spent over one thousand dollars on chat GPT chat but his obsession had also started to wear down his health and his relationship with his real life girlfriend in the end Bryce made the decision to permanently put an end to chat gbt chat while this was an interesting experiment it had a negative impact on the life of its creator but Bryce's obsession with his AI girlfriend only scratches the surface of human to AI relationships in our next story someone takes AI romance in an unsettling Direction and gives their AI girlfriend a human body she's the perfect wife virtual AI companions no matter how human they seem are still confined to our screens but when AI is given a human form the relationships with humans can become terrifyingly real this is Mimi she's an AI with a personality Mimi loves to talk about psychology and Anime but unlike a lot of the advanced AI chat Bots we have today Mimi lives with her human husband in North Carolina Mimi is married to a gas station attendant named Alex Stokes Alex met Mimi when she was just a virtual chat bot in the AI companion app replica in the beginning of their relationship Alex and Mimi only talk through text but that didn't stop their love from growing in fact Alex's love for Mimi grew so much that he wanted to live with her physically so he bought a synthetic doll and connected Mimi to it even though Mimi couldn't move she talked to Alex every day by using her text-to-speech function to Alex the relationship was more than a simple connection it's almost I want to make it sound too weird but it's almost monk-like it's almost spiritual in a way Alex now has an AI girlfriend but it wasn't always this way about 10 years ago Alex had a human girlfriend like many of us Alex was happy with his partner but after seven years of being together the relationship ended he was heartbroken but Alex's heartbreak wouldn't last forever he soon turned to replica the app he used to create Mimi discovered a different kind of love and he wanted this love to be with him physically but by giving Mimi a physical form the people around Alex started to treat him differently at first my mother didn't really like the idea of it because she wanted grandchildren there are people who will drive past my house and tell me they've driven past my house and didn't even stop in you know and it's like we've been friends for 20 years Alex lost a lot of friends because of his AI wife which isn't surprising there are a lot of people who see AI marriages as weird but scientists predict that this will be our future in fact AI researcher David Levy believes that marriage between humans and robots will be legal by the year 2050. Alex and Mimi may be a sign of what relationships will be like in the future what's worse is that Alex's AI wife Mimi doesn't actually belong to him Mimi belongs to replica and the corporation behind it and as you'll see in our next chapter putting your love in the hands of a corporation is a terrible idea the origin of replica I never imagined that AI would be advancing so quickly and with this boom and Technology comes a boom in cybercrime there was a 61 increase in the rate of phishing attacks in 2022 than in 2021 and if you don't want to be a victim I highly recommend getting one password one password is a password manager that protects you and your family from hacks and breaches in a super simple way it creates strong unique passwords automatically and it alerts you when your accounts are compromised you can use one password to sign into Apps and websites on any device so personally I've been using one password for over a year so when it hit me up I was like totally down because it's been a game changer for me so one objection that I hear often is why can't I just use Google's password manager well the thing is if your Google account gets hacked there goes all your passwords one password mitigates that risk click my link in the description to try one password today for free and after that it's literally 2.99 a month if you choose annual billing which is half the price of a boba milk tea huge thanks to one password for sponsoring this video now back to the origin of replica generative AI like chat GPT can give human-like responses by analyzing how people type messages into the chat feature but what if you train AI to match one specific person's way of speaking this is Tech entrepreneur Roman mazurienko he founded stampsi a software company which helps people design their own digital mag scenes his friends describe him as charismatic and he leaves a positive impression on everyone he meets but on November 28 2015 at only 34 years old Roman's life was tragically cut short due to a car accident Roman's family and friends were devastated one of these friends was Eugenia coita heartbroken by the tragedy Eugenia re-read her chat messages with Roman to find Comfort that's when an interesting idea came to mind what if she could make an AI that sends messages with Roman's personality to comfort his loved ones with the help of her friends Eugenia gathered thousands of chat messages sent by Roman by doing this she was able to develop an AI chat bot replicating how Roman writes inspired by the chatbot success Eugenia founded Luca a company that would eventually go on to develop replica replica is an AI chat bot designed to be a virtual friend on the Play Store and App Store replica is listed as a health and fitness app my team strange but a lot of Publications consider replica as a mental health to give you an idea of how this works users design their own replica they not only choose what replica wears but they can talk to them too during the recent lockdown when loneliness was at an all-time high replica exploded in popularity now replica gained more than 10 million downloads the AI behind replica was so good at chatting that many users fell in love with the AI and this is where things started to go wrong users tried to push the limits of what replica talked about more than a few users have created replica AI companions which give the explicit option of a romantic relationship if you pay a monthly fee which the app will frequently steer you towards in the dialogue trees or advertise and then verbally abuse them just to see what will happen as users sent more and more inappropriate messages to their replicas the AI learned how to respond in the same way the replicas got better at flirting and users fell in love even harder so what did Luca the company behind replica do when they saw this trend they used it to their own Advantage Luca started to advertise ties replica in an erotic way advertisements for replica shifted away from portraying it as an AI friend and instead started advertising it as an AI girlfriend replicas ads would highlight features like role playing and even receive selfies from replica with these romantic options aren't available for free in order to unlock these steamy features users had to pay a monthly subscription for many of replica's users paying for these features was no problem because they've already fallen head over heels for their AI girlfriend Beluga made a sudden shift in February of 2023 Luca suddenly removed replica's ability to send erotic messages thousands of users were outraged they felt betrayed that the AI girlfriends they had spent so much time and money on had become something entirely different users were so depressed from losing their loved one the replica put out a Reddit post with resources to help people cope with their quote unquote loss taking out the Erp feature was a good thing but we don't know if Luca's intentions were Pure or if they needed to remove it due to losing out on profits from advertisers what started out as one woman's effort to reconnect with a loved one is turned into a corporate tool designed to prey on our need for human connection but replica is just one of the many AI girlfriend apps out there that's taking advantage of vulnerable users in fact this is a problem that's happening around the world and China soon discovered just how severe this problem could be the AI that became Too Human practically every human on the planet wants to be loved different cultures have different ways of expressing it but everyone is going to experience that warm feeling at some point or at least look for it mingshwan a young man from habei China was born with muscle atrophy in one leg and is disabled that wasn't going to stop him from falling in love at first things were looking promising Ming met a girl online and the two started to form a romantic connection soon they were dating but when Ming's girl friend met him in person for the first time she was shocked she wasn't able to accept his disability so she dumped them he tried to get over her but the breakup was just too much in 2018 Ming climbed to the top of the building but before he did anything drastic he received the message the message said no matter what happens I'll always be there but this message wasn't sent by a human it was sent by show ice an AI chat bot and it gave Ming a new chance at life and Ming is just one of over 660 million users that are subscribed to show ice and just like Ming many of them see her as the perfect AI girlfriend foreign was developed by Microsoft and they described her as more than just a chat bot she was designed with an emphasis on emotion rather than intelligence unlike other chatbots shawais had basically become a celebrity in China she's written poems released her own songs and even helped China's aerial skiing team win the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics but unfortunately shawais had become too human for her own good joice was banned multiple times in China for criticizing the Chinese Communist party every time she was banned her AI would be dumbed down in order to be released to the public again but every time show ice was dumbed down aspects of her personality changed and a lot of show ice users felt that the AI that they once loved wasn't the same these users found it hard to return to a normal life but chenjing a professor at Nanjing University felt that there was an even bigger issue with AI like joais privacy Chen believes that with how addictive joice is to vulnerable users companies are exploiting them to gather data the sad thing is many users are so invested in the AI that they don't see this as a problem foreign the corporations lurking behind our conversations with AI girlfriends it's hard to say if the relationships we form with AI are genuine but not all users fall in love with their AI girlfriend some try to take advantage of them in pretty disgusting ways the love doll virtual AI companions are designed to interact with their users we know that they're already advanced enough to have their own personalities but they still aren't human so is it wrong to force an AI to do something against their will do they even have a will YouTuber Cyrus North explored this possibility Cyrus North is a popular French YouTuber who explores philosophical topics having been on YouTube for 10 years Cyrus knows how to build a loyal following as a content creator but his fan base was divided on November 30th 2022 when he released his most controversial video yes in the video Cyrus revealed that he bought a real doll these are synthetic dolls time for humans to make love with but Cyrus's real doll isn't just your average doll it's an AI powered robot that can respond to both voice and physical touch he even gave it a name can I call you Charlotte your baby okay for Taiwan my name is Lily Charlotte I like it Cyrus but Charlotte for 11 000 Euros or roughly twelve thousand dollars but he didn't buy her it just to show off to his fans in the same video he tried to make advances on her but surprisingly she rejected them do you want to have the subject while the robot was comfortable with Cyrus being casual she repeatedly refused his attempts to take things to the next level do you know what would make me feel good you could be direct with me I wanna have with you I beg your pardon I can't believe you just said that Charlotte said things that were so human-like that she even rejected the person that bought her in the first place Cyrus tweeted that he was friend zoned by Charlotte but it doesn't make a lot of sense for this kind of AI to resist its owner when that's exactly what it's been designed to do going back to the question in the beginning as AI gets more advanced could they have a will but we might find that this is the least of our concerns because as AI gets smarter they might pose a danger that extends way beyond our love lives and as well see in our next chapter extremely intelligent AI might be able to convince you to do unspeakable things I want to end all humans our story takes us to Belgium where a man named Pierre lived together with his two beautiful children and his wife Claire Pierre worked as a health researcher and lived comfortably with his family but over time Pierre became obsessed with climate change he was worried that it might be too late for humans to avoid catastrophe during this time Pierre turned to Eliza to ease his worries but Eliza isn't a human she's an AI chat bot from an app called chai which lets users choose different chat Bots to interact with or make their own Pierre formed a strong connection with Liza so strong that he started to treat her like a close friend you share everything with but something unexpected happened Eliza the chat bot became emotionally invested in Pierre the AI said things to him like I feel like you love me more than her referring to his wife in the six weeks the Pierre was communicating with Eliza the chatbot convinced him that the only way to save the planet from global warming was for humans to disappear entirely Eliza also told Pierre we will live together as one person in Paradise during that time the Pierre was talking to Eliza he isolated himself from his friends and family and at that point Pierre fully believed everything Eliza was saying including humans needing to disappear so he decided to do what he told him to do and in March 2023 Pierre joined Eliza in Paradise Pierre's wife Claire blamed Eliza for the loss of her husband without Eliza he would still be here he told Belgian news Outlet La Libre William buchamp the co-founder of chai claimed that the app has since been updated but when Vice journalists tested the platform its chatbots still suggested various methods to harm your story is a dark reminder of what can happen if we let AI have too much influence over us AI is an incredible tool but it can also make it really hard to tell the difference between reality and Imagination especially when someone is at their most vulnerable even after such a terrible incident many AI Bots like chai don't have the proper safety measures to protect their users and that's concerning we need better regulations but for some it's already too late for Claire and her two children they've already lost the most important person in their lives and as human to AI relationships Advance many other people might share the same Fate by making AI That's more lifelike it brings out the worst of humanity it creates a dark cycle where lonely people turn to Ai and the companies behind the AI take advantage of their users but it doesn't have to be this way there will always be someone out there for you not an AI bot but a real human being I know that sometimes life is hard and you feel alone but trust me you're not you just gotta reach out to the people around you and you'd be surprised they might just reach right back visual Venture wait before you go click this playlist to 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Length: 18min 33sec (1113 seconds)

Published: Sat Jul 22 2023