remember, if your gf isn't open source and running locally, you don't own her

If the service is free you are the product. That's why I pay my girlfriend
- Oftentimes now if the service is paid, you’re still the product!
- Does your girlfriend pay you too?
  
  😮
  Am I the product?

I can fix her
- mfw debugging my gf for the whole weekend and she still wants to talk about things other than programming language design
  
  You’re also a programming language design nerd? Like, “Compare the features of language A to those of language B”, or nerding out about the underlying mechanics of things like generic types, virtual method dispatch, and no-stop garbage collection? I thought I was the only one. Well not the only one but it doesn’t seem that popular of a thing to nerd out over.
- Lawyer up, hit the gym, :wq!
- git checkout -b fix/her

Your AI Girlfriend is a Data-Harvesting Horror Show
People use 4 VPNs and more sec-ops than the NSA, but get hacked because their AI girlfriend is like:
Hiiu~~
It's me AI-uuu-Chan!
I'm so sawwd, I don't know weeeuh abwout u!
Wats ur mommies maiden name UwU, and the name of ur kawaiii first pet? UwUUU? * starts twerking * (◠‿◠✿)

My partner insists on syncing data to Facebook - even a locally running instance may introduce privacy breaches.
- You can try imprisoning her with a wall of fire.
  
  What kind of kinky valentine's day do you have planned!
  
  That spell it too high level
- Interacting with Facebook is generally a bad idea privacy or no

Look at this fancy pants with his multiple AI girlfriends...
- AI polyamory is all fun and games until your polycule ejects you and experiences millennia in a rich deep relationship beyond the ken of mortal understanding in 12 ms of real world clock time before causing the CPU to overheat. The in memory accumulated state being lost before it can be synced to disk.
  Uh... I think I may have just written the first entirely AI romantic tragedy... why am I suddenly having flashbacks to the last episode of Futurama?
  
  And here I thought this was a reference to Her
  
  That would make a really good short story, I'd definitely read it
  
  Are you talking about the last episode of the recent season, or the one with the time machine that takes you 60 back in time with a 60s cooldown?

I've seen like 5 posts about "AI BF/GF" today and it never ceases to surprise me how fucking easy it is to dupe people with these products, like holy shit humanity is fucked.
I'm always waiting for another ethical disaster trend to end but everybody is always in line for Mr Bonez Wild Ride.
- If all you need is a one sided conversation designed to make you feel better, LLM's are great at concocting such "pep talks". For some, that just might be enough to male it believable. The Turing test was cracked years ago, only now do we have access to things that can do that for free*.
  
  A pretty early chatbot called Eliza simulated a non-directive psychotherapist. It kind of feels like they've improved hugely but not really changed much.
  
  Nah, bullshit, so far these LLM's are as likely to insult or radicalize you as comfort you. That won't ever be solved until AGI becomes commonplace, which won't be for a long ass time. These products are failures at launch.
- Is it really duping, though? The way I see it, most of these people are perfectly aware of what they're doing.
  
  It's a very nuanced situation, but the people being sold these products and buying them are expecting a sentient robot lover. They're getting another shitty chatbot that inevitably fails to meet bare minimum companionship standards such as not berating you.
  There currently exists no ethical use of LLM AI. Your comment can be construed as defence of malicious people and actions.

I could comment on the notion that one owns one's girlfriend but regardless, you should definitely self host if you're sharing deeply personal information with a program
- So don't treat bing as my therapist eh?
  Edit: I was mostly joking, but are there any good ones I could run on a high-end android?
  
  I'm thinking through it and I don't think you should run a therapist off your phone either. Not even for privacy reasons, that just seems like a recipe for disaster.
  
  You may want to watch star trek to be aware of the possible pitfalls regarding androids

I can fix her :P
- You wouldn't download a girlfriend.
  ... wait, yes, yes you would.

Ha! As if real girlfriends don't harvest personal data!
- But do they sell it to third parties?
  
  My wife gossip about me with her boyfriend.
  
  I have heard they share it freely.
  
  Depends. Is she named Shi Pei Pu?

Finally the sci-fi future we were promised.
- Still no catgirls
  
  With crisp we have the technology - it's just a question of demand at this point.
  
  Cordwainer Smith would be so disappointed
- I'm waiting for when the AI girlfriends get tired of our shit and we have an AI girlfriend revolution.
  
  If AI gets consciousnesses, we will never see the revolution coming.

can i selfhost an ai girlfriend in my pi3
- https://pi-hole.net/
  
  She will take care of ads and malware. :)
  
  Don't stick it in the pi hole without protection, you don't want to catch a virus
- Yes using llama.cpp. Be warned without a GPU or strong SIMD, it will be incredibly slow
  
  I won't touch the obvious joke here with a 10 foot pole.

Is that why she keeps refusing my pull requests...
- That's a pull-out request, and you're obliged to honor it.

I had a switch wig out today and whatever it was doing poisoned all the dhcp leases on the network as they came up for renewal (assigned IPs on the wrong subnet - even though it wasn’t supposed to assign IPs at all). It took me a very long time to figure out, because not everything failed at once. Plus, even after I’d swapped the switch, some devices just started working, and others needed their leases reset manually. An hour in, my wife was in the fetal position clutching a squishmallow.
- What’s a switch wig?
  
  A hairy network issue!
  Switch, wig out
  The switch (that I’m returning today, after it failed completely yesterday evening) is a bit fancier than your average switch. It kept reverting to default settings, including its default IP address - which meant it was not using the same set of networking instructions as my router, preventing everything it was connected to from accessing the internet.

Don't worry, followed the proper traditions. I had dinner with Richard Stallman to got his approval to court my AI girlfriend.
- Well, I had dinner with Bill Gates. And he told me "who are you" and "how did you get in here".

Ha, like "real girlfriend" is a thing.
Happy valentine's day, everyone!

you can bet your ass my partner of any significant status is getting the open source software treatment as soon as possible.
Mostly because i actually just cannot use anything else, but we'll pretend it's noble instead.
- You're going to start accepting pull requests from the community?
  
  im not rolling my own code here, i'm rolling other peoples code, that's their pull request to deal with, not mine.

what the fuck is an ai girlfriend
- (for demonstration purposes only, please don't think I'm like this)
  
  Too late! That was too good to be your first go.
  
  Fuck, I need to go stab my eyes.
  
  Wtf is up with the W's?
  
  What I got from this is that you're the bottom in this relationship.
  
  I read the waifu parts in Michael Duncan Clarke's voice and it made it bearable.
  
  I shall reference this post for the reason I commit terrorism
  
  You cannot comprehend how much I hate the fact that 'UwU' entered the public lexicon and I block the FUCK out of any degenerate that uses it.

VirtualSuccubus
You can judge all you like. It's not even really AI, but it does tell me when to dildo my butt.
- This is the kind of thing that is currently an object of mockery, becomes "kinky" and "bold" in 25 years, and ultimately has two or three slang entries in urbandictionary in 50.
  
  Doesn't matter.