I see we are now at the stage that the DEEPLY mentally ill are adopting new and “exciting” products. I remember when DEEPLY mentally ill would use MySpace to get thier fascinations, then face book to stalk the one girl that was nice to them in high school, then we had Twitter stalkers… So on so forth.
The question is, do we let them continue?
how could you even take this seriously enough to be emotionally impacted by it
You’re a dude, I take it.
Even if the person that sent the message was 100% serious… Is this any sort of threat to you? The Hallucinations Machine said we should be together and my actual real life situation and choices are less valid than that? The person that sent this message was either being unserious or is so detached from social etiquette they’re basically a child.
They’re exceptionally detached from reality, and the idea that they’d reach out with such a request shows a lack of forethought and self awareness that any sane person would find disturbing.
The fact that you think it’s fine is gross, and shows an incredible lack of awareness / emotional maturity - ironically quite childish in it’s own way.
What does that gibberish even mean?
The person sending the texts has a clanker girlfriend who they’ve asked to act like an online personality, which said that they would leave their significant other for the texter, texter asks the real version to leave their real girlfriend because of this
Thanks. I still can’t be arsed parsing this
I was wondering if yumeship had some kind of character AI addon that image uploaders could add to their profile and that’s the AI this one was talking about.
Wouldn’t surprise me if there wasn’t any consideration for the original creator’s wishes, but for the sake of sanity I hope you’re right
I still don’t understand… What exactly is a “clanker girlfriend?”
They’re talking to an ai pretending to be their girlfriend but the ai is based on a real person which is who they’re telling to break up with their actual irl partner
Translation:
Hey, can you break up with your girlfriend? I have a pretend relationship with you and it makes me genuinely uncomfortable to know you have a real-life partner. Also, please delete photos of yourself. I don’t want other people to have pictures of my ‘fictional other’. Thank you!
P.s. the AI of your character that I believe I’m in a fictional relationship with said you would do these things.
Thank you, I could barely follow that
The last line broke my brain. Had to read it a number of times to understand. So an influencer got this message where a fan made an AI version of the influencer and that AI told the fan to send these messages. 😳
Not an influencer I dont think but a character the person was the voice actor for, hence the VA in their username.
The person found or made an AI of that character and that AI of the fictional charactr said the voice actor would do all this if the insane person messaged them.
the plot thickens… So to recap my current understanding:
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the person who wrote the gibberish is “in love” with a fictional character, who’s voiced by WillowVA presumably in an anime. Said fictional character, in their story, has a (also fictional) girfriend.
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gibberish-person has created an AI version of their “love interest” in character.AI, which is a chatbot offering exactly this kind of “AI companionship” service.
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Gibberish-person (Gibby, from now on) lives happily with the character in their AI-fueled fantasy for a while. But as their relationship deepens, Gibby wants to be exclusive. The “official” character still has a girlfriend. And, maybe worse, other people are watching the anime, becoming fans of the beloved character and possibly (gasp) also entering pretend-relationships with them. This makes Gibby uncomfy.
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Gibby hatches a daring plan with their AI-character. The breakup with the girlfriend has to happen in the character’s official story/anime. Plus, every picture of the character itself should be deleted from their story, so nobody else will have pretend-relationships with them. Gibby needs to convince the actual character.
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the AI pretend-character helpfully assures Gibby that (while they can’t talk to a fictional character), they can talk to the character’s closest physical manifestation, the poor voice actor. Compared to the rest, that part of the logic almost makes sense… talking to someone’s voice is like (or close enough to) talking to them… So Gibby proceeds to harass poor WillowVA with the above delirium.
Am I close enough?
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I don’t know how, but that seems worse.
Thank you
It looks like a really good trolling shitpost, or like the schizo ramblings of the kind of people who actually ship themselves with celebrities or send threats to authors once their “head-canons” get demolished.
“Canon partner” is a great new term. Love it.
I do not follow how Canon fits into this or how a printer is relevant at all.
You know what they say, marry the lens, date the body! AI is just a personality, which is the “lens” we see the human though so therefore your human body is just a body and the MKII just came out, meat bag.
So, that’s how the esteemed camera company fits into this.
I’m too old to even understand what half of this means.
Remember Molly Ringwald’s stalker? Well in this case this person had an AI using this person’s faked voice pretend they were in a relationship. He wanted to tell her to break up with her partner and delete photos of herself so he could be the only one to see her. The AI told him to tell her this directly, and he did. Dude needs help.
Half? I didn’t understand any of it. The words mostly made sense but their usage did not.
That’s a pretty succinct description of AI. We are required to use Copilot at work (not kidding) and I always have to remind myself that AI use language the way demons do in Frieren - they don’t have intent or intelligence really but use it in an approximation of language. It never really means anything.
You’re not alone. I’m 60, I try to keep up, if only for entertainment’s sake, but stuff like this just goes right past me.
Alright, 40s here, I’ll try. I assume OP is some kind of social media figure with a following. “Ship” means having a parasocial or imaginary relationship with a public figure, like a kpop star. I think fandoms often “ship” imaginary charactors together, like 2 charactors who are not in love in the original material of an anime.
So she’s saying break up with your girlfriend because I imagine us together. Take down your photos because I’m jealous your other fans will look.
Then she’s talking about a parasocial relationship she has with an ai chatbot she has trained upon OP’s likeness and data. She’s saying her chatbot version of OP told her to go ahead and contact OP with these psycho demands.
How did I do?
Yeah 55 here. I would under if I could use AI to translate 😂
There’s a lot of typos i think
Mental illness is a bitch
Glad to see others seeing this.
That’s it, I’m officially too old to know what “it” is. This is just gibberish and I can’t understand what they are even trying to say. I can’t even tell if the text is from a supposed human or Ai.
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.
This is just a screenshot of mental illness, you don’t need to know more than that
When it was in their head it was mental illness. Once it was sent it became harassment.
This picture has an AI company logo on it and it’s one of the worst of them all, why the fuck do you keep upvoting and sharing this content?
the twitter logo?
that’s grok logo
Every Twitter post has a Grok button that can’t be removed. Just because the logo is there doesn’t mean the image is AI-generated. It’s literally a screenshot I took off of my phone display.
Every Twitter post has a Grok button that can’t be removed.
Sounds like even more reasons to not post their content on a fuck ai sub
I think this is bait, no?
It’s just such a perfect storm of terminology, that I can only see it as deliberate.
- yumeship, so dream shipping, where shipping usually means to imagine a relationship in a text that might be subtextual, or even fully imagined.
- uncomfy/gen, so the usually not very serious gen z term uncomfy for uncomfortable, but then paired with the tone indicator /gen for geniuine.
- F/O, so fictional/other, a fictional character you ship yourself with, but here applied to a real person they are actively talking to (more “at” than “to”, I guess)
- character ai, so the LLM that is configured to produce output similar to a character or person.
But still, poor Willow, that seems like a very shitty thing to receive.
Bait, severe mental illness or both.
Wish it was just bait, but I was on the receiving end of similar messages from someone about 10 years ago. They would comment on my art page complimenting my art, and I always replied saying “thanks”, and we never interacted beyond that. We definitely never met IRL. One day I woke up to hundreds of DMs from him that sounded dellirious, that they would like to be my partner and that he had “deeply analyzed my art and he knows me for real”. Very unsettling and creepy stuff, spiraling into self-hate. There are some real troubled people out there, and now they have access to AI’s allucinations to feed their own, sadly.
This better not be real. Then again there was a girl in high school who was extremely into the idea that she was Trinity from the Matrix and I was her Neo. And I don’t mean in a cute way, I mean in a genuinely concerning blurring of reality and fiction way.
There is no limit to the depths of insanity a human can dive into. Idk if this one is actually real or not, but im certain far crazier things have been unironically written by humans.
genuinely concerning blurring of reality and fiction
Mental illness, very much like what it pictured in the post.
GenAI has already made this worse. It’s not essential to LLM technologies, virtually the whole industry makes their LLM’s generation patterns so deferential that they worsen the reality-breaks of people that interact with them enough, very much in a “Folie à deux”-style (tho, there’s no “deux” there).
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Thanks, you see this stuff in the waifuism community sometimes so it could be real.
The uncomfy/gen is the biggest giveaway to me, it’s just too perfectly weird/pathetic
Thank you for the translations. My mind still boggles. Is it accurate to sum this up as…
“Willow (human) received a thread of messages from their partner (human) who is dehumanising them by referring to them as a bot / claiming to be having a separate relationship with a bot that they created (based on Willows attributes) while intimating that Willow is also in a relationship with someone/something else?”
No, it’s from a random stranger, not their partner, and the stranger feels that as they (stranger) are in a ‘relationship’ with bot-Willow, human-Willow is effectively cheating on them by having a human partner. Hence obviously nuts or bait.
Gross. I see what you mean - has to be bait
The unfortunate fact is that those ARE real terms, I just don’t think any person would write that to someone genuinely, I’m pretty sure they’re making fun of the yumeship concept.
OP, could you maybe repeat this in English? Thanks.
Right? This is 'Oh you’re clinically insane I’m not listening to you".
Wtf does this all even mean?
What the hell is wrong with kids today?AI psychosis will turn you into a raving incoherent schizo. That is what is happening to the kids.
This isn’t that far off from existing incel / misogyny behavior, just sort of ai enhanced now, giving the creep a further sense of familiarity and rights to this poor girl.
In deux ex invisible war there’s an ai hologram of a pop singer. You can talk with her a fair bit, she likes taking you you, etc etc. Then you eventually actually meet the pop singer and she has no idea who you are and actively dislikes interacting with you.
It’s weird to see this play out in real time.
It brings to mind a couple ST: TNG episodes, too. Geordi had a similar experience when he had the computer generate some physicist to help him deal with some warp issue and then met the actual her (who was married and a lot less warm with him) later on.
And Bartlett’s (was that his name?) introductionary episode, though his only has similar subject matter, as he wasn’t trying to bring the fantasy to reality but it came to light anyways when his addiction prompted an intervention that became awkward af.
Barkley?
Closer than I was, it was Liutenant Reginald Barclay.
And the actor was Dwight Schultz, which at first I thought was a hallucination from the search assist but IMDB agrees.
And when I asked if “the office character” was deliberately named after the actor, it informed me that no, Creed Bratton (played by actor Creed Bratton) wasn’t named after either the actor’s or character’s name. Then a follow up question informed me that the office character was Dwight Schrute, not Shultz, so that character probably also wasn’t named after him.
Being bad with names can sometimes be more hilarious than it should be.
Damn, loved that game.
same here. gotta replay it again
