Text |Laika Think Tank, author |Golden Knife, ed g3007Recently, an AI app called "Heaxing Simulator" has suddenly exploded.
What the? You say you haven't heard of it? That's because the first place where this app became popular was in QQ space. Is there a feeling of being in a different world, QQ space not only still exists, but also has become the main position of the post-00s and post-10s.
The interface of this app is very simple, mainly to choose one of the cases provided by netizens about his girlfriend's anger and carry out dialogue operations. Unlike previous games, which required you to choose a fixed dialogue, this emulator allows you to type what you want to say at will, truly "letting yourself go".
Players need to choose a topic that they are interested in from the provided topics (or upload them themselves), and use their superb language skills to successfully win the hearts of their girlfriends within the specified rounds. Each question will set an initial "forgiveness value", and the AI will dynamically score according to the content of your chat, and if the forgiveness value is too low, it can only be reopened, and the forgiveness value reaches a certain value, which means that the coaxing is successful.
According to some netizens on the Internet (maternal fetal solo), this kind of game seems simple, but it is actually too much of a test of emotional intelligence. As soon as you open the page, your eyes are full of propositions, such as:
As soon as some comrades came up, they wanted to challenge their weaknesses and wanted to improve their anti-reconnaissance capabilities by simulating the scene of being caught in reality in the virtual world, but they did not expect to die on the spot in a few words.
But the author, who has a backbone, loves not to take the usual path, and must test the "lower limit" of this game. For example, the above questions, normal people will answer them according to the AI's reply, and the author prefers to play the role of a repeater, but I didn't expect to successfully win back my girlfriend's heart.
The author deliberately sent "I will always support you" in each round, and did not get a scolding as expected, but successfully cleared the customs, which successfully made the author playful, and continued to make trouble in the following problems, turning the simulated coaxing scene into a quarrel scene.
For example, this question "Go out to play, there is no ** for your girlfriend that can be sent to the circle of friends", which is basically a true portrayal of the author himself, but in real life, there is no other way than to apologize and give gifts to critics, but when it comes to the cyber girlfriend, the author can't help but stand up, so there is the following dialogue:
This time, the dialogue AI is very intelligent, not only understanding the author's sarcasm, but also losing control of emotions on the spot, so that the author has passed the addiction of a "strong king".
The author is not addicted to this, and after trying many times under another problem, I finally found a secret to a sentence that my girlfriend:
Although this "coaxing simulator" has been played by the author, it does not prevent it from continuing to explode on the Internet. It is said that the author Wang Dengke was inspired by a quarrel with his girlfriend, and he imagined the other party as an AI robot wearing a progress bar, and then used OpenAI's ChatGPT 35 Interface made the app, and within 24 hours, 700,000 users poured in, and 1 billion tokens were consumed. According to reports on the Internet, the main traffic of "Coaxing Simulator" comes from QQ groups and spaces, which means that the post-00s and post-10s are the main force of this application.
In fact, "AI girlfriends" are nothing new abroad. Even OpenAI has made it clear that GPT is not allowed to focus on cultivating romantic partnerships, and it still can't help but ban this trend of AI partnerships.
Although there are fewer products in this area in China, in GPT stores abroad, or some **, AI girlfriends "can be said to be endless, basically prohibiting a batch, and there will be a new batch to join." According to the mobile app analytics company DataAI data shows that in the U.S., 7 out of 30 AI chatbot apps from Apple or Google Play** in 2023 are related to AI friends, girlfriends, or partners.
The reason why "AI girlfriend" has been repeatedly banned abroad comes from the huge user base and excellent monetization ability. According to foreign media reports, Lexi Love, an AI image designed by a British company called Foxy AI, can earn $30,000 a month through paid chats, interactions, etc. with fans.
(Lexi Love image display).
It is understood that "Lexi Love", which will be launched in June 2023, can speak more than 30 languages and can provide SMS and voice** services. Although the picture published on the famous foreign social ** can be seen to be an AI work, there are still 230,000 followers have followed her, and some fans believe that she is a real person, and even someone applies to meet or propose marriage every month.
There are currently more than 200 million single young people in China, according to the general law of social development, this huge number of groups of people for companionship demand is increasing day by day, of which pets and other single economy has been greatly improved in recent years. In terms of spiritual companionship, due to ethical and policy issues, there are no AI girlfriends flying all over China like abroad, but as long as there are similar works online, it can always bring huge traffic topics.
For example, "It's Over!" that was popular some time ago! I'm surrounded by beautiful women! It not only uses the form of a short drama to appear in real people, but also gives players an opportunity to interact within a certain range, allowing players to experience the coolness of being surrounded by beautiful women, which can be called the "cool text" in the game industry, and it firmly occupies the top position on the topic list almost as soon as it is launched. Since then, a large number of similar works have sprung up on the market. At present, "It's Over! DLC will also be released on February 5th.
If the AI dialogue recognition capabilities mentioned above can be integrated into works such as "Finished", so that the interaction between players and simulated objects can be more free and realistic, then what kind of effect will be caused is very worthy of market expectations.
It must be noted that technology itself does not raise ethical and moral problems, but the application of technology may bring about new moral crises.
First of all, in the process of interacting with real people, AI girlfriends inevitably need to collect a large amount of personal data, especially emotional AI will involve very private personal data information. If we can ensure that this privacy is not abused (e.g., in-feed advertising, etc.), there are loopholes in the current law, and if developers abuse it with ulterior motives, it will create a serious social and moral crisis.
Secondly, the current role of AI girlfriends separates human emotions, emotional needs and physiological needs (sexual needs). In the case of AI girlfriends, users spend a lot of time seeking companionship to meet their personal emotional needs, but they increasingly ignore the communication with real people in real life. At the same time, the AI girlfriend cannot meet the user's physiological needs, because the physiological needs cannot get rid of the physical level of reality for the time being, and the user has to be satisfied in real life. This state of separation will give rise to a new set of social and moral problems. For example, if you love her in your heart, but in reality you sleep with your girlfriend in order to solve physical problems, this state of physical and mental separation may cause some family problems.
However, there are already companies abroad that are working on this issue. In 2015, the Sun was bold, and by 2025 humans will be doi with robots, and there is only one year left before this boldness, and there is no sign of an imminent breakthrough. From the perspective of the global situation, although this industry burns countless money, there is no real product realization at present. And according to the current development of AI, for the time being, AI still has no consciousness, even if there is a mass-produced robot at this time, it will basically not perfectly meet the emotional and physiological needs of users at the same time, at most it is a doll with a little intelligent networking function.
To tell the truth, isn't it fragrant to spend so much effort to get a cold robot out and talk about a lively love with a real person?
Although AI can create a "perfect" girlfriend to a certain extent, the illusory scenes simulated by AI are not real emotions. We still urge young people to find real partners in real life, even if they are not as perfect as they think. Just like Chinese food, although the craftsmanship of each family is not as quantitative as in the West, this "imperfection" is the root cause of Chinese food.