Building on zemo's point about parasocial relationships: traditional parasocial interaction involves a performer who doesn't know you exist. Here the AI does respond to you specifically, which changes the dynamic.
Is it still parasocial if the other party is responsive but not conscious? Or is this something new that we don't have good language for yet?
far from being impossible, it's the entire influencer economy. This form of social media has been extremely widespread for a decade or so running; it's probably the dominant form of social media.
Building on zemo's point about parasocial relationships: traditional parasocial interaction involves a performer who doesn't know you exist. Here the AI does respond to you specifically, which changes the dynamic.
Is it still parasocial if the other party is responsive but not conscious? Or is this something new that we don't have good language for yet?
What are you using for tts/stt/models?
This is cool.
This is disturbing.
It will quickly distill down to clients using the service just for sex and sex-adjacent activities.
No kink-shaming, but this sort of thing enables self-destructive hard-to-return-from anti-social behaviour.
It creates a conflict to build a system that is both a private friend and a public performer. You cannot maximize intimacy and fame at the same time.
You're describing Parasocial interaction: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parasocial_interaction
far from being impossible, it's the entire influencer economy. This form of social media has been extremely widespread for a decade or so running; it's probably the dominant form of social media.