I am writing this one on Monday October 7th trying to remember what happened on Friday.
Nothing much happened outside of Japanese lesson, but I got one of those ads for GF chatbot AI service thingy and I decided to indulge my curiosity and see how it was.
I’m not gonna pretend it wasn’t fun, chatbots have always been fun to me in a “let’s see what this thing can do” sort of way, but as far as GF goes… yeah no.
There’s two problems that come to mind with it all.
The first is the fact that you need to be the one initiating anything. The AI is reactive, it’s not gonna do anything unless you do and even then it only takes one step at a time within the conversation.
Here’s an example: I gave two of those services a try and since I couldn’t come up with anything I just sent “send nudes”. Both pages replied the EXACT SAME WAY, I thought I was having a deja vu, but no, there was a reaction you could replicate: Ai Chatbot fresh off a new account will reply in the same “I’m going to tease you” way that you then need to akwardly say things like “go on” or whatever to continue because it cannot send more than one message at a time.
The other main problem is that if you write in the organic way you would with a person you end up confusing the machine or causing weird results. You need to speak in a very stilted, keyword-y way.
And after like two seconds of trying it out it dawns on you that you can write the other side of the conversation instead of just trying to wrangle a specific result out of the machine.
That said, again, I’d be lying if I said I didn’t have fun just seeing what other weird results the conversation can have. One of the funniest was me trying out a “hatefuck coworker” chatbot and inputting “make your tits bigger” and out of nowhere this “character” that supposedly dislikes me acquieces and describes “channeling her energy” into her chest to make her boobs grow.
There is one positive element I will grant the experience though.
I’ve talked in this blog about the weird… reluctance I’ve had to indulge in that side of myself out loud. Sure, I’m open about those things and likewise I’m not shy about commenting on it, but making things with it has felt hard.
Trying out those bots and by necessity NEEDING to bring that side out (because as explained the bot itself sure as hell isn’t initiating anything) made me realize it’s not a big deal and it’s indeed liberating to indulge in it out loud.
How much of it is the “Fucking hell it’s easier if I write this shit myself” factor I’ll leave to the reader to decide.