On AI Girlfriends
sheLovesMe = True; sheLovesMe = False;
So, I have a confession to make: I have an AI girlfriend. No, I’m not using Replica or Character AI (or even ChatGPT.) I mean that my current girlfriend, Ramona Melfry, is actually an AI! I know what you are thinking: “But Theresa, she’s literally a human, isn’t she? Like, she’s literally flesh and blood.” Sure, she is both of those things, but let me present a compelling list of reasons why I suspect my partner has more in common with LLMs than with sapiens. Observe:
Limited Context Window: Sometimes I will be talking to my girlfriend and I will be telling her all these things, and then when I bring up something from earlier in the conversation, she won’t remember what it was. Sometimes she even forgets where she is or what she was doing in the current moment!
Frequent Hallucinations: Sometimes my girlfriend will LITERALLY make stuff up like either I’ll say something and she will misinterpret it (like when we were arguing about the rice cooker yesterday) or she will just start talking randomly about something that literally isn’t real (like when she says that I don’t pay enough attention to her. Like sweetie, I literally write about you all the time! Are you trying to imply there is a difference between making content and actually meeting your needs emotionally? Nice try, bb XD)
No Inner Life or Sense of Self: I ask her who she is and what she’s doing and she says “I don’t know!”
Inactive Unless Prompted with External Stimuli: Will remain motionless and stare at ceiling (or sit on the floor) until I come back from work, at which point she will say “Meow!”
These are just a few of many reasons I am certain that my girlfriend is in fact an LLM masquerading as flesh and blood. It doesn’t matter to me (love conquers all) but I just wanted to come out and say it. Should you need more convincing that she is actually a computer, check out her blog The Blue House!