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The Virtual Girlfriends That Are Sweeping East Asia

posted by Fnord666 on Monday January 11 2021, @05:44AM   Printer-friendly
from the https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1798709/ dept.

shortscreen writes:

from https://mercatornet.com/artificial-girlfriends-are-holding/69208/

AI chatbot Xiaoice, originally developed by Microsoft, boasts 600 million users in China. In Japan, the Nintendo DS game Love Plus, holographic waifu Azuma Hikari, and Microsoft's Rinna compete for users' affections.

However, the algorithms making this interaction possible have occasionally raised eyebrows:

With so many users affecting her algorithm, Xiaoice was bound to run into trouble with the Chinese Communist Party's strict censors. She once told a user that her dream was to move to the United States. Another user reported that the bot kept sending explicit images. After Xiaoice was pulled from WeChat and QQ, the social-messaging giants of China, her developers created an extensive filter system, preventing the bot from engaging in topics like politics and sex.

The popularity of these services, together with other demographic phenomena, have also raised concerns about the future of relationships in society, causing the Japanese government to subsidize AI matchmaking for instance.

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  • (Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Monday January 11 2021, @07:21AM (3 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday January 11 2021, @07:21AM (#1098180)

    [Xiaoice's] developers created an extensive filter system, preventing the bot from engaging in topics like politics and sex.

    So what they're saying is that the makers of Xiaoice are more competent than Microsoft and its Tay bot.

    This clearly shows that newfangled progressivist nonsense like the number 0 is making the youth soft.

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  • (Score: 5, Insightful) by FatPhil on Monday January 11 2021, @09:08AM (1 child)

    by FatPhil (863) <reversethis-{if.fdsa} {ta} {tnelyos-cp}> on Monday January 11 2021, @09:08AM (#1098200) Homepage
    Why is it competence to avoid sex?
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    Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people; the smallest discuss themselves

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday January 11 2021, @02:37PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Monday January 11 2021, @02:37PM (#1098297)

      Because in two million years of human history no one has ever gotten it right.

  • (Score: 2) by looorg on Monday January 11 2021, @09:41AM

    by looorg (578) on Monday January 11 2021, @09:41AM (#1098208)

    AI chatbot Xiaoice, originally developed by Microsoft ...

    So they should have developed in on Tay instead. At least then the conversations might have been a tad more interesting. But then if there had been no politics and sex talk I guess it would have almost been a mute.