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[โ€“] Kazumara@discuss.tchncs.de 62 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (12 children)

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.

[โ€“] kawakeiko@sh.itjust.works 11 points 1 day ago

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.

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