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.
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.
This better not be real. Then again there was a girl in high school who was extremely into the idea that she was Trinity from the Matrix and I was her Neo. And I don’t mean in a cute way, I mean in a genuinely concerning blurring of reality and fiction way.
There is no limit to the depths of insanity a human can dive into. Idk if this one is actually real or not, but im certain far crazier things have been unironically written by humans.
genuinely concerning blurring of reality and fiction
Mental illness, very much like what it pictured in the post.
GenAI has already made this worse. It’s not essential to LLM technologies, virtually the whole industry makes their LLM’s generation patterns so deferential that they worsen the reality-breaks of people that interact with them enough, very much in a “Folie à deux”-style (tho, there’s no “deux” there).
Thank you for the translations. My mind still boggles. Is it accurate to sum this up as…
“Willow (human) received a thread of messages from their partner (human) who is dehumanising them by referring to them as a bot / claiming to be having a separate relationship with a bot that they created (based on Willows attributes) while intimating that Willow is also in a relationship with someone/something else?”
No, it’s from a random stranger, not their partner, and the stranger feels that as they (stranger) are in a ‘relationship’ with bot-Willow, human-Willow is effectively cheating on them by having a human partner. Hence obviously nuts or bait.
The unfortunate fact is that those ARE real terms, I just don’t think any person would write that to someone genuinely, I’m pretty sure they’re making fun of the yumeship concept.
I think this is bait, no?
It’s just such a perfect storm of terminology, that I can only see it as deliberate.
But still, poor Willow, that seems like a very shitty thing to receive.
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.
Bait, severe mental illness or both.
This better not be real. Then again there was a girl in high school who was extremely into the idea that she was Trinity from the Matrix and I was her Neo. And I don’t mean in a cute way, I mean in a genuinely concerning blurring of reality and fiction way.
There is no limit to the depths of insanity a human can dive into. Idk if this one is actually real or not, but im certain far crazier things have been unironically written by humans.
Mental illness, very much like what it pictured in the post.
GenAI has already made this worse. It’s not essential to LLM technologies, virtually the whole industry makes their LLM’s generation patterns so deferential that they worsen the reality-breaks of people that interact with them enough, very much in a “Folie à deux”-style (tho, there’s no “deux” there).
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Thanks, you see this stuff in the waifuism community sometimes so it could be real.
The uncomfy/gen is the biggest giveaway to me, it’s just too perfectly weird/pathetic
Thank you for the translations. My mind still boggles. Is it accurate to sum this up as…
“Willow (human) received a thread of messages from their partner (human) who is dehumanising them by referring to them as a bot / claiming to be having a separate relationship with a bot that they created (based on Willows attributes) while intimating that Willow is also in a relationship with someone/something else?”
No, it’s from a random stranger, not their partner, and the stranger feels that as they (stranger) are in a ‘relationship’ with bot-Willow, human-Willow is effectively cheating on them by having a human partner. Hence obviously nuts or bait.
Gross. I see what you mean - has to be bait
The unfortunate fact is that those ARE real terms, I just don’t think any person would write that to someone genuinely, I’m pretty sure they’re making fun of the yumeship concept.