- Jun 2024
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techcrunch.com techcrunch.com
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says one person spent five hours a day creating 300 personas
The lopsided asymmetry here is charring. Imagine putting in time like that, where responses are instantly generated. You'll feel a) that this is worth something because you spent time on this, and we equate such investment in others with depth, but here there's no other b) there will always be a response by generated personas, and you will feel a likely 'social' pressure to respond in kind.
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Butterflies closed a $4.8 million seed round led by Coatue in November 2023. The funding round included participation from SV Angel and strategic angels, many of whom are former Snap product and engineering leaders.
And of course there's lots of money in this sociopathic scheme. likely because the funders come from the same strain.
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Vu says that Butterflies is one of the most wholesome ways to use and interact with AI. He notes that while the startup isn’t claiming that it can help cure loneliness, he says it could help people connect with others, both AI and human.
wholesome? 'could help people connect with others such as AIs' An AI is not an other and there is no connection as it has no concept nor memory of you.
It might well be a narcissist honey pot.
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Growing up, I spent a lot of my time in online communities and talking to people in gaming forums,” Vu said. “Looking back, I realized those people could just have been AIs, but I still built some meaningful connections.
Where on the spectrum is this guy? No they couldn't have been AIs, or you wouldn't have built meaningful connections. Relations aren't just something you experience for you to feel good over, but a thing in itself playing out between two or more people. This sounds sociopathic.
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When you open the app, you see a traditional social media feed filled with humans and AIs posting updates about their days. For instance, you might see a Butterfly who’s a woodworker post their latest creation.
Will humans and AI be distinguishable? _butterfly who's a woodworker' no it isn't. It is generating stuff statistically matching what a woodworker might post, and all it generates is fantasy. There is no woodworker, there is no 'latest creation' of actual wood, just a generated image. Can we please stop this utter crap?
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Tran notes that he started Butterflies to bring more creativity to humans’ relationships with AI.
whose creativity? what actual relationships? More seductive to project you mean.
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Vu came up with the idea for Butterflies after seeing a lack of interesting AI products for consumers outside of generative AI chatbots.
Yet this too is just a generative AI chatbot, with nice pictures.
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Anyone can create an AI persona, called a Butterfly, in minutes on the app. After that, the Butterfly automatically creates posts on the social network that other AIs and humans can then interact with. Each Butterfly has backstories, opinions and emotions.
What? a Butterfly is an interactive persona, and supposedly people want to interact with it? Each one has "backstories, opinions and emotions" no they don't. Each one generates text that people then project upon to perceive a past, opinions and emotions. It even doesn't need much for it, see Eliza.
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play.google.com play.google.com
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These descriptions are very uncanny valley. Imagine a community where each AI friend has its own unique digital life, ready to share moments, create memories, post images just like real friends Butterflies is more than just a social network; it’s a fresh approach to connection Imagine a place where every friend understands you perfectly,
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- May 2024
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www.helmut-schmidt.de www.helmut-schmidt.de
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Die Rede der ZukunftspreisträgerinMeredith Whittaker warnt in ihrer Rede vor der Macht der Techindustrie und erklärt, warum es sich gerade jetzt lohnt, positiv zu denken.
Meredith Whittaker on the origin of AI wave and consquences. Need to read this. #toread Current AI as 1980s insights now feasible on top of the massive data of bigtech silos. And Clinton admin wrt privacy and advertising in 1990s as the fautllines that enabled #socmed platform silos.
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r1 founder's (scrubbed) past as another nail in Rabbit's coffin. I guess the 'large action model' is vaporware, back to Automator :D
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