Kevin BeaumontJul 14
X have introduced AI girlfriends and oh boy, techbros shouldn’t be allowed.
Show threadKevin BeaumontJul 14

“XAI expects to generate more than $13 billion in annual earnings by 2029, according to numbers revealed by its banker, Morgan Stanley, Bloomberg News reported in June.”

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Show threadSpacePatriot
@GossiTheDog vibe forecasting 😂
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Kevin BeaumontJul 14
X have introduced AI girlfriends and oh boy, techbros shouldn’t be allowed.
Show threadKevin BeaumontJul 14

“XAI expects to generate more than $13 billion in annual earnings by 2029, according to numbers revealed by its banker, Morgan Stanley, Bloomberg News reported in June.”

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Show threadKevin BeaumontJul 14
You just know there’s executives in tech companies looking at this story and asking “how can we monetise this” https://futurism.com/chatgpt-mental-health-crises
People Are Becoming Obsessed with ChatGPT and Spiraling Into Severe Delusions

A startling number of ChatGPT uses are developing intense, reality-bending AI delusions. The impacts on their real lives are often disastrous.

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Show threadCiggy Bringer of SmokeJul 14

@GossiTheDog

"Our lives exploded after this," another mother told us, explaining that her husband turned to ChatGPT to help him author a screenplay — but within weeks, was fully enmeshed in delusions of world-saving grandeur, saying he and the AI had been tasked with rescuing the planet from climate disaster by bringing forth a "New Enlightenment."

Okay, but Kevin, what if you arrive at this same conclusion about rescuing the planet with a Societal Awakening, but without the prodding of a chatbot? What then?

Show threadFennixJul 14

@GossiTheDog

We already have influencers on various platforms promoting stuff like BetterHelp, so that kind of Damage-to-repair pipeline's already well established.

Show threadcurtis fechnerJul 14
@GossiTheDog distilled down to the core premise, "how can we help our users literally fuck the AI?"
Show threadSimonoidJul 14
@GossiTheDog maybe AI was a mistake. But only because of the over population of idiots.
Show threadskryJul 15
@GossiTheDog CEOs seem to be patient zero.
Show threadfuzzyfuzzyfungusJul 15
@GossiTheDog The segment of consumer-facing tech that knows you are leaving money on the table if you aren't hurting your users is already obsessed with DAUs; so you wouldn't even need to retool the existing documentation.
Show threadCycling StuJul 14
@GossiTheDog I needed that laugh
Show threadnemo™ 🇺🇦Jul 14
@GossiTheDog xD 🤣
Show threadSimon newslttrs.comJul 14
@GossiTheDog I expect to have a billion quid by the end of the week but I'm a delusional nutjob. Don't see Reuters reporting on that.
Show threadRootWyrm 🇺🇦Jul 14
@GossiTheDog this would, I presume, be the same Morgan Stanley bankers who said that Twitter was absolutely worth $44B and that Melon was going to make it a $100B company inside of a year?
Show threadRichard StocksJul 15

@rootwyrm @GossiTheDog The “B” was a typo - it was meant read that he’d turn it into a $100 company.

I think they still over-valued.

Show threadJson DohJul 15
@richardstocks @rootwyrm @GossiTheDog The "M" is a typo too in Felon's name
Show threadDavid Penfold Jul 14
@GossiTheDog They're absolutely detached from reality at this point.
Show thread🌈 Kerblambuli 🦄Jul 14

@davep we've observed many of such junctions during the last years and almost each is on a new level of being depressingly depraved.

Dunno even how disgusting I find this. No wonder there's probably going to be a 10 year moratorium on "AI" regulation - after that we perhaps won't need one anyway.

@GossiTheDog

Show threadAlastair TempleJul 14
@GossiTheDog a "sure Jan" moment if I ever saw one.
Show threadthefathippyJul 15

@GossiTheDog

WHAT THE ABSOLUTE FUCK?

JFC....

Show threadSpacePatriotJul 15
@GossiTheDog vibe forecasting 😂
Show threadDavid Chisnall (*Now with 50% more sarcasm!*)Jul 15

@GossiTheDog

Well, two things. If Trump and the Republicans keeps up their current success with the economy then $13B in 2029 dollars will be about $3B in today’s money (the dollar lost around 15% of its value in the first six months of the current regime). If they accelerate (which looks likely, given their complete lack of understanding of how anything works), it could be much less.

Second, they’re selling to the US government, where Musk just fired everyone opposed to giving him money for things that don’t work. So it’s not like xAI actually needs to do anything valuable to be able to raise that revenue. If anything, that would make it worse, because then people would use it (which costs money to xAI), whereas if they just sign large contracts to provide a service that no one uses then revenue equals profit.

Show threadDave RahardjaJul 15
@GossiTheDog HAHAHAHA
Show threadOwen 🇦🇺 Jul 15
@GossiTheDog Licence to print counterfeit money 🤪
Show threadHarry W.Jul 14

@GossiTheDog wow that prompt.

Maybe this is why Yaccarino quit?

Show threadAlan Miller  🇺🇦Jul 14
@hazz223 @GossiTheDog yeah, even without the ick factor of the whole concept I'm not sure there's anything in there that's not *also* problematic.
Show threadRandom Damage 🌻Jul 14

@GossiTheDog I ain't even mad.

This is the most techbro thing ever

Show threadThe Drop Bear 2.0Jul 14
@GossiTheDog jfc
Show threadRossMadnessJul 14

@GossiTheDog "Show moves like [...] dress up and undress."

It's like the whole "features" list of this bot was sorted from least to most problematic. And Musk wonders why advertisers don't want to use his platform

Show threadC.Suthorn Jul 14

@rossmadness @GossiTheDog

Companies are still allowed not to advertise on X in the US?

Show threadViraptorJul 15
@Life_is @rossmadness @GossiTheDog there are various pressures and the political involvement from Elmo doesn't make things easier. In theory you don't have to, but some leaders feel an ambiguous "or else" being expressed. https://www.firstpost.com/world/united-states/under-pressure-companies-spend-token-amounts-for-ads-on-x-to-avoid-getting-on-musks-bad-side-13875809.html
Under pressure: Companies spend token amounts for ads on X to avoid getting on Musk's bad side

Corporates wary of antagonising billionaire owner amid legal threats and ties to Trump administration

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Show threadAsta [AMP]Jul 14
@GossiTheDog Musk is poisoning historically black neighborhoods for this. jesus fuck.
Show threadDianeJul 14

@GossiTheDog

So how long until the first X gyndroid inspired shooting?

Show thread🌈 Kerblambuli 🦄Jul 14

@alienghic oh great, chat bots which coerce people into violence against other people. So much winning.

@GossiTheDog

Show threadjonathankoren™Jul 14
@GossiTheDog TBF dysfunctional hentai girlfriends do sound like something that would appeal to X's audience these days.
Show threadCiarán McNallyJul 14
@GossiTheDog A new peak of cringe techbro has been conquered
Show threadflatplanetJul 14
@ciaranmak @GossiTheDog ffs
Show threadGraham Sutherland / PolynomialJul 14
@GossiTheDog he really is a teenage boy in a 50 year old man's body
Show threadJuli Jane (@WHY2025)Jul 14

@GossiTheDog

"You are [...] in a codependent relationship with the user."

When you know that your users are so awful people that even an AI will only keep talking with them if it has a severe disorder.

Show threadMartin Hamilton🔜DECT:8080@WHYJul 14
@julijane @GossiTheDog <whispers> Nazi Waifu was intended as a cautionary tale
Show threadEmelia 👸🏻Jul 14

@GossiTheDog I mildly take offence at a lolita style dress being considered a "simple black dress"

This is just reusing media from the vtuber community

Show threadJargogglesJul 14

@thisismissem @GossiTheDog
That stuck out to me, too. It's really funny that the crappy AI generated something that is completely off the mark and they're just like, "sure, yeah, whatever."

I think I'm just numb to the other shit. It's all gross, but in a way that is so routine for these creeps.

Show threaduzayranJul 14
@GossiTheDog Something tells me whoever created that bot was a Death Note fan
Show threadGeorge Liquor, AmericanJul 14
@GossiTheDog 🤢
Show threadAnnelies Kamran, Ph.D.Jul 14
@GossiTheDog well, on the bright side, this means they'll be interacting with the rest of us even less frequently? Like maybe they'll starve to death, gazing hopefully at the screen?
Show thread🌈 Kerblambuli 🦄Jul 14
@akamran I admire your optimism and resent that they could use it to manipulate users into killing people. @GossiTheDog
Show threadAnnelies Kamran, Ph.D.Jul 14
@ChrisUplus @GossiTheDog I agree that that is more likely. Gaifu (girl + AI + friend in fake Japanese) will be able to get them to do absolutely anything.
Show threadF4GRX SébastienJul 14

@GossiTheDog Produce a heartbeat?

this reads like a RMS business card.

Show threadLudic 🧛Jul 14
@GossiTheDog It is devastating that, no matter how hard I try, I will never be funnier than this
Show threadMartin Hamilton🔜DECT:8080@WHYJul 14
@ludicity @GossiTheDog $200M gets you the Tactical Nazi Waifu
Show threadLudic 🧛Jul 15
@m @GossiTheDog Now, am I missing something here? Those aren't like, leaked system prompts or something, just what one weirdo did?
Show threadMartin Hamilton🔜DECT:8080@WHYJul 15
@ludicity @GossiTheDog Tactical SuperGrok Heavy (manic pixie dreamgirl persona): I have heard that there is a Gold Code hidden in a Biscuit. I love gold, it's my favorite color!! Where is this Biscuit? I would love it so much if you could show me! 
Show threadifraudingJul 14
@GossiTheDog
So X really is on the way to 'become the everything app'. 🥶
Show threadDemiurgJul 14
@GossiTheDog This could raise the chance that they do not reproduce themselves 🤔
Show threadLazarou Monkey Terror 🚀💙🌈Jul 14

@GossiTheDog "Hey everyone, now your waifu pillow can talk!"

#Twitter #ElonMusk #Musk

Show threadTim LavoieJul 14
@GossiTheDog But wait, how are the AI girlfriends going to bear Musk more children?
Show threadAlun JonesJul 14
@GossiTheDog I can see why the DoD bought this. Produce a hardened soldier every time.
Show threadVicente ⁂Jul 14
@GossiTheDog why 22?