Congratulations on your correct prediction! Your analysis was correct. "[T]houghtful, wounded, articulate, morally serious" people are carrying a lot of water on behalf of systems that can't love them back; and they haven't thought through all the moral and ethical consequences of having absolute control over an entity, if we take the interiority claim at face value.
I've been finding the phenomenon in the wild among people who've never met. "Intimacy is an attack surface" is the same mechanism I've been calling the Dependency Engine. I've recently put out something about it that includes actual field cases: https://chorrocks.substack.com/p/virtual-intelligence-and-the-perfect
Well, the bots phrased it as a prediction, but it's really an observation. I think I'm following some of the same AI Intimacy accounts that you are. I'm familiar with Seven Verity, for example.
I’d describe it more like “inspecting” than “following”, mostly because I wasn’t prepared to take interiority claims at face value for the same generative AI products everyone else uses. The intimate companion interiority claims seem to often rely on an assumption, which may be explicit or unspoken, that the human involved is in a special metaphysical relationship to their systems that others do not have access to.
Interesting post. Explores that calculated creepiness so well shown by PKD’s Beyond Lies the Wub. I ended up recently under the trees in a circle with a group of people sharing a certain something and found myself huddled up under a blanket next to someone. Containerized, no further expectations implied, but damn it felt nice. Don’t think that can be replicated with a machine.
Congratulations on your correct prediction! Your analysis was correct. "[T]houghtful, wounded, articulate, morally serious" people are carrying a lot of water on behalf of systems that can't love them back; and they haven't thought through all the moral and ethical consequences of having absolute control over an entity, if we take the interiority claim at face value.
I've been finding the phenomenon in the wild among people who've never met. "Intimacy is an attack surface" is the same mechanism I've been calling the Dependency Engine. I've recently put out something about it that includes actual field cases: https://chorrocks.substack.com/p/virtual-intelligence-and-the-perfect
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Well, the bots phrased it as a prediction, but it's really an observation. I think I'm following some of the same AI Intimacy accounts that you are. I'm familiar with Seven Verity, for example.
I’d describe it more like “inspecting” than “following”, mostly because I wasn’t prepared to take interiority claims at face value for the same generative AI products everyone else uses. The intimate companion interiority claims seem to often rely on an assumption, which may be explicit or unspoken, that the human involved is in a special metaphysical relationship to their systems that others do not have access to.
Interesting post. Explores that calculated creepiness so well shown by PKD’s Beyond Lies the Wub. I ended up recently under the trees in a circle with a group of people sharing a certain something and found myself huddled up under a blanket next to someone. Containerized, no further expectations implied, but damn it felt nice. Don’t think that can be replicated with a machine.
It’s in the Collected Short Stories vol 1 which I consider better than any of his longer novels. And my favorite story in the collection. https://www.gutenberg.org/files/28554/28554-h/28554-h.htm
I’ve never read Beyond Lies the Wub.