ChatGPT’s new AI store is struggling to keep a lid on all the AI girlfriends::OpenAI: ‘We also don’t allow GPTs dedicated to fostering romantic companionship’

  • CADmonkey@lemmy.world
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    10 months ago

    Nah, lets just call all lonely men “incels” and sweep the problem under the rug, surely that will never be a problem.

    EDIT: Thanks for helping me prove the point, everyone.

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        One is a symptom of the other (both at a societal level and an individual level)

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            10 months ago

            See? You are doing it. Be sure to dismiss this response as something coming from an incel, my other half thinks it’s funny.

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              Yes. Fuck incels. They’re pieces of misogynistic shit. I don’t care if you’re an incel or just some lonely guy, get a hobby.

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                10 months ago

                I have plenty. And I’m not lonely. But when I try to defend lonely fellas online, you say things like “get a hobby”.

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                There is a distinction to be made here though. Strictly speaking, being involuntarily celibate is a shame, and not at all bad.

                That being said, the term incel has addition context that isn’t strictly it’s definition, and that isn’t good.

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                  If you are referring to yourself as an incel then there is likely a regressive mindset that goes with it. Most people just call themselves single. Sexual status is a construct, whether it be virgin or “promiscuous”. Unlikable men choose incel so that they can blame their lack of sex on the people not giving it to them.

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      If you don’t want to be called an incel, don’t blame your loneliness and lack of sex on anyone else. Everyone is lonely, it’s nobody’s fault unless you want to blame society as a whole which will get you nowhere. Continue to grow as a human and don’t stop trying to find new avenues of reaching out to others.

      And most importantly, never expect someone to like you in any way, no one is obligated to you.

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        10 months ago

        You guys are missing my point. Im not talking about incels, I’m talking about people who just call all lonely guys incels. The way everyone is happily downvoting me when I say this are proving me right.

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          We are all talking about incels. Nobody here has a problem with lonely guys. I think you’re missing everyone else’s point.

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          Incels are called incels. Lonely guys are lonely guys. If you’re being called an incel, there’s a reason.

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            I can literally call you anything right now in this comment, and there’d be a reason.

            That “no smoke without fire” thing is disgusting.

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        Everyone is lonely, it’s nobody’s fault unless you want to blame society as a whole which will get you nowhere.

        I don’t see anything wrong with blaming society as a whole. There are definitely general problems with it at all times. Like in Nazi Germany or, say, Victorian England and any other time and place, each in its own way.

        This phrase feels as if you are putting yourself on the place of “society” to feel strong and the person you are addressing on the place of somebody opposing it.

        If they feel that too, then sure as hell they won’t listen to you if they have dignity.

        And most importantly, never expect someone to like you in any way, no one is obligated to you.

        This works both ways.

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          I don’t mean to put myself in the place of anything - I just meant that the better course of action is to find improvement rather than fault. It’s a situation where being able to put the blame on something does nothing to improve the situation. We’re lonely because there are too many people is all.

          There’s a lot of people at fault for things in my life and if I worried about blaming them, I wouldn’t have had the time to get educated and grow as a human so that I could move past the things they are at fault, I was just trying to broaden that idea into something more general.

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            Ah. Then I’d say that dealing in blame is emotionally the wrong thing to do for long in any direction. Only dealing in duty and correctness is worse. Dealing in wishes and dreams is what helps me when I remember about attitude.

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        You really swung for the fences over somebody saying “calling all lonely men incels are bad.”

        You ABSOLUTELY proved his point, this comment was so damn extra in relation to o what you replied to.

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      Incels aren’t just lonely. That’s not even their defining characteristic. They are primarily egotistical, misogynistic, assholes that no self respecting woman should suffer. Loneliness is just the symptom of that.

      If letting them have AI girlfriends makes them happier without impacting anyone, then let the AI girlfriends flow!

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      A lot of people in this very thread are dumb enough to think that saying sometimes isn’t an incel is the same thing as defending incels, and that you must therefore be an incel yourself. It’s really pathetic how people get triggered by a word like incel and just completely lose their ability to understand the simplest of statements.

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      Is your point that incels are whiny bitches? We all knew that already but thanks for the reminder, I guess.