Wow, so if he lets his girlfriend push him around, he’s not a real man!

What a progressive you are!

yes, do you have any tips for giving a good bj, and can I practice on you

wait huh

America bad, upvotes to the left

I’m having a very hard time believing the photo on the right is real.

yeah no shit they’re flaky, they’re neural networks. that doesn’t imply ill intent on their part any more than “hallucinations” are a deliberate attempt to deceive

I mean, technically not, but if an adaptation becomes dominant in the population it’s probably because creatures that had it survived more often than creatures that didn’t, which probably means it serves a purpose

“Redbull gives you diabeteeeees” doesn’t quite have the same ring to it

But AI allows us to create meaningless bullshit in a FRACTION of the time! How would we keep up that pace? Plus, ou don’t even have to be skilled at doing the thing the old fashioned way to be able to use AI to look competent to someone extremely credulous! Think about this! You’re taking away people’s skills!

Turning AI off for a week will not reveal anything to capitalist institutions whose stated purpose is to influence elections that they did not already know.

What it will do is reveal within friend groups and within communities who has a brain that they’re willing to use and who’s been skating by on other people’s brains since long before ChatGPT came along.

bartender talking to a drunk patron voice Yeah, okay, put down the LLM, you’re done.

You might as well call it collectivism that most people believe the sky is blue.

No, not unless by “collectivism” you mean a bunch of people independently coming to the same conclusion.

Allow me to assist.

yumeship = yumejoshi (Japanese slang term for a girl who inserts herself into a fictional story) + ship (fandom term used to refer to two characters getting into a relationship) = the act of imagining a fictional version of oneself getting into a relationship with a character from a piece of media one enjoys

uncomfy/gen = uncomfy (you can guess) + /gen (tone indicator that means the previous statement is genuine as opposed to joking or sarcastic)

(by the way a tone indicator is a well-known sequence of letters appended to a text message to communicate the intended tone, like /s for sarcasm, /j for joking, /gen for genuine, etc., used to communicate through a text medium what would otherwise be conveyed through tone of voice. Traditionally they’re appended to the end of a message, not used in the middle of a sentence. I’ve never seen a tone tag applied to a specific word before. The author also seems to be using it as an intensifier, which… huh?)

canon = (adjective, applied to a statement about a fictional world) confirmed in the text of a fictional work, or by the author of said work in e.g. an interview, as opposed to made up by fans (in this case, used rather disgustingly to refer to something that is true in real life as opposed to a fictional setting)

F/O = Fictional Other = Fictional + Significant Other

c.ai = character.ai = a website where users can converse with LLM chatbots that pretend to be fictional characters. Anyone can create and finetune such a chatbot (by starting with a blank slate character and interacting with it and telling it how it should act) then making it available for others to use, and a lot of users create chatbots that imitate real people. The website doesn’t really crack down on this.

Essentially what the person who sent these messages has done, is gone to character.ai, looked up a chatbot that pretends to be a real Internet celebrity, convinced themself (I think?) that the real Internet celebrity was a fictional character (or at least could be thought of in those terms), talked to it until it told them that it was in love with them, concluded that the real person the chatbot was pretending to be was also in love with them, and confronted said real person with this information, expecting them to make the fictional relationship real. It’s a textbook parasocial relationship, except for the part where the non-celebrity wasn’t listening to things the celebrity was saying, they were listening to things a chatbot pretending to be the celebrity was saying.

Rather than responding, the real internet celebrity who received the messages took a screenshot of them and made a post conveying their disgust that any of their fans felt entitled to act that way, and a screenshot of that post is what you’re seeing here.

The thing is, I don’t think anyone in this thread disagrees with that user’s assessment. I certainly don’t, and there’s another user in this thread telling you to seek psychiatric help.

Are you saying everyone in this thread is mentally ill, or that you are?

you know how a lot of religions have as their stated goal bringing about the end of the world

Now we’re sliding into fascism, and you know whyyyyy 🎵

Three point landing? Really???

“Some studies are done with funding contingent on a certain result, therefore all science is junk and science as an institution is untrustworthy”

I’ve had success building relationships with individual Mastodon users, interacting and commenting on each other’s posts for a while, becoming mutuals, then sending a DM along the lines of

“Hey! I noticed we follow each other, and I’d like to get to know you better! What are your interests?”

and building from there. The conversation usually moves to a chat platform fairly quickly (if it manages to continue) and I’ve started a friendship or two that way.

Meeting people in Matrix spaces is still my go-to, though.