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[–] arc99@lemmy.world 28 points 3 days ago (1 children)

What does that gibberish even mean?

[–] NihilsineNefas@slrpnk.net 13 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (5 children)

The person sending the texts has a clanker girlfriend who they've asked to act like an online personality, which said that they would leave their significant other for the texter, texter asks the real version to leave their real girlfriend because of this

[–] GelatinGeorge@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago

Thanks. I still can't be arsed parsing this

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[–] Baggie@lemmy.zip 95 points 3 days ago (5 children)

In deux ex invisible war there's an ai hologram of a pop singer. You can talk with her a fair bit, she likes taking you you, etc etc. Then you eventually actually meet the pop singer and she has no idea who you are and actively dislikes interacting with you.

It's weird to see this play out in real time.

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[–] DigDoug@lemmy.world 192 points 4 days ago (7 children)

...I'm sorry, I think I need a translation for this.

[–] Zeppo@sh.itjust.works 142 points 4 days ago (2 children)

I looked up "yumeship" and just found more incomprehensible delusional niche culture bullshit

[–] Gullible@sh.itjust.works 48 points 4 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (13 children)

https://everskies.com/club/yumeship/forums/rules/basic-yume-info-64736976

The site above is accessible language-wise. They seem to be either fucking with OOP, or mentally ill, or 11.

Edit: removed a thing, language drift is a helluva drug

[–] orioler25@lemmy.world 69 points 4 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (69 children)

"We." Always a red flag when someone admits to participating in lolcow shit; buncha chuds bullying autistic kids online.

Edit: hey, all you chuds who are getting mad about this comment, you're not fooling anyone either, it's just other chuds telling you that you've done enough. "Edgy" isn't the same as bullying people to suicide because they're weird, that isn't normal teen behaviour, it comes from internalized values that you will still hold unless you actually address what you believe and why; just not bullying people online anymore isn't the same thing as learning to be better.

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[–] betterdeadthanreddit@lemmy.world 80 points 4 days ago (4 children)

Weirdo likes to imagine that they have a relationship with the person who originally posted the screenshot with the messages. They're asking the real person to engage in their fantasy by breaking up with another (probably) real person because weirdo's chatbot of them said they would.

F/O in this case is fictional other, a play on S/O for significant other. Yumeship is a dumb word for jerking/schlicking fantasy stuff.

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[–] driving_crooner@lemmy.eco.br 48 points 4 days ago (8 children)

I'm guessing they have a character AI "girlfriend" modeled after her, and she having a real life broke his illusion

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[–] communist@lemmy.frozeninferno.xyz 13 points 2 days ago (5 children)

how could you even take this seriously enough to be emotionally impacted by it

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[–] Kazumara@discuss.tchncs.de 58 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (9 children)

I think this is bait, no?

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.

[–] Zwrt@lemmy.sdf.org 28 points 3 days ago

Bait, severe mental illness or both.

[–] khepri@lemmy.world 24 points 3 days ago (3 children)

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.

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[–] billwashere@lemmy.world 36 points 3 days ago (6 children)

I’m too old to even understand what half of this means.

[–] hardcoreufo@lemmy.world 13 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Half? I didn't understand any of it. The words mostly made sense but their usage did not.

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[–] bitchkat@lemmy.world 43 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (3 children)

That's it, I'm officially too old to know what "it" is. This is just gibberish and I can't understand what they are even trying to say. I can't even tell if the text is from a supposed human or Ai.

[–] AVincentInSpace@pawb.social 16 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Allow me to assist.

yumeship = yumejoshi (Japanese slang term for a girl who inserts herself into a fictional story) + ship (fandom term used to refer to two characters getting into a relationship) = the act of imagining a fictional version of oneself getting into a relationship with a character from a piece of media one enjoys

uncomfy/gen = uncomfy (you can guess) + /gen (tone indicator that means the previous statement is genuine as opposed to joking or sarcastic)

(by the way a tone indicator is a well-known sequence of letters appended to a text message to communicate the intended tone, like /s for sarcasm, /j for joking, /gen for genuine, etc., used to communicate through a text medium what would otherwise be conveyed through tone of voice. Traditionally they're appended to the end of a message, not used in the middle of a sentence. I've never seen a tone tag applied to a specific word before. The author also seems to be using it as an intensifier, which... huh?)

canon = (adjective, applied to a statement about a fictional world) confirmed in the text of a fictional work, or by the author of said work in e.g. an interview, as opposed to made up by fans (in this case, used rather disgustingly to refer to something that is true in real life as opposed to a fictional setting)

F/O = Fictional Other = Fictional + Significant Other

c.ai = character.ai = a website where users can converse with LLM chatbots that pretend to be fictional characters. Anyone can create and finetune such a chatbot (by starting with a blank slate character and interacting with it and telling it how it should act) then making it available for others to use, and a lot of users create chatbots that imitate real people. The website doesn't really crack down on this.

Essentially what the person who sent these messages has done, is gone to character.ai, looked up a chatbot that pretends to be a real Internet celebrity, convinced themself (I think?) that the real Internet celebrity was a fictional character (or at least could be thought of in those terms), talked to it until it told them that it was in love with them, concluded that the real person the chatbot was pretending to be was also in love with them, and confronted said real person with this information, expecting them to make the fictional relationship real. It's a textbook parasocial relationship, except for the part where the non-celebrity wasn't listening to things the celebrity was saying, they were listening to things a chatbot pretending to be the celebrity was saying.

Rather than responding, the real internet celebrity who received the messages took a screenshot of them and made a post conveying their disgust that any of their fans felt entitled to act that way, and a screenshot of that post is what you're seeing here.

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[–] muhyb@programming.dev 103 points 4 days ago (4 children)

Can someone explain what exactly is this? I have no idea what I'm looking at.

[–] sundray@lemmus.org 136 points 4 days ago (11 children)

As best as I can figure out without doing any research...

A fan of a voice actor has decided that they are in a relationship with the VA's character (yumeship). They therefore want the VA to dump their real girlfriend, and they want the VA to also delete pictures of themself they've posted, because the fan is jealous that other people can see their "fictional other" (like significant other, but you know, fictional).

The fan expects the VA to do all these things because an AI chatbot based on the VA's character said they would.

[–] muhyb@programming.dev 87 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Thanks for the explanation. I think I regret asking about this now. This is just mental.

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[–] lightnsfw@reddthat.com 23 points 3 days ago (4 children)

Shame they can't rig these chat bots to trick these people into fixing themselves. Be like "Hey, let's take a shower and go outside today" or "how are your job applications going?" but I guess them getting their shit together wouldn't be good for engagement...

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[–] ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world 62 points 4 days ago (1 children)
[–] tigeruppercut@lemmy.zip 41 points 3 days ago (10 children)

Prob with a healthy dose of regular psychosis.

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[–] Kage@discuss.tchncs.de 41 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Seems like you need a whole other level of brain damage to comprehend this

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[–] zod000@lemmy.dbzer0.com 55 points 3 days ago

Wtf did I just read?

[–] Bluedragon012@lemmy.world 9 points 2 days ago

I see we are now at the stage that the DEEPLY mentally ill are adopting new and "exciting" products. I remember when DEEPLY mentally ill would use MySpace to get thier fascinations, then face book to stalk the one girl that was nice to them in high school, then we had Twitter stalkers.. So on so forth.

The question is, do we let them continue?

[–] Aeder@lemmy.world 16 points 3 days ago

It looks like a really good trolling shitpost, or like the schizo ramblings of the kind of people who actually ship themselves with celebrities or send threats to authors once their "head-canons" get demolished.

[–] MutantTailThing@lemmy.world 81 points 4 days ago (2 children)

What the fuck am I reading?

Prosecution's exhibit A.

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[–] starik@lemmy.today 14 points 3 days ago (1 children)

“Canon partner” is a great new term. Love it.

[–] hunnybubny@discuss.tchncs.de 7 points 2 days ago (2 children)

I do not follow how Canon fits into this or how a printer is relevant at all.

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[–] Blackmist@feddit.uk 71 points 4 days ago (2 children)

In my day we used to just have a wank and be done with it

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[–] RampantParanoia2365@lemmy.world 24 points 3 days ago (1 children)

OP, could you maybe repeat this in English? Thanks.

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[–] AlcoholicPenis@futurology.today 22 points 3 days ago

This is what AI use does to your brain. It turns you into a raving schizoid lunatic with delusions about reality.

[–] magic_smoke@lemmy.blahaj.zone 45 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (29 children)

My closest family member ate his own gun when I was in my early 20s.

Its something that always fucked with me, especially knowing he never got to know me as the woman I am. That his partner is left widowed to figure out the rest of her life on her own in her late 50's.

I say this because I want everyone to understand the gravity of the meaning when I say I would have trouble not telling that person to fucking dome themselves.

The idea of the machine being used to take your job being used for THAT.

Like I get its not the right thing to say morally because that person probably has a laundry list of their own problems, but actually fuck them that's ghoulish as shit.

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[–] november@piefed.blahaj.zone 49 points 4 days ago (35 children)

If it wasn't character dot ai telling them they would, it would be the version of their "F/O" who they were married to on the astral plane. This isn't an AI problem, it's a people being fucking creepy problem.

[–] Natanael@slrpnk.net 25 points 3 days ago (3 children)

It's both, because the sycophancy of AI radicalizes some people, the misaligned social feedback cause them to lose their grip on reality

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[–] Hawanja@lemmy.world 16 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Wtf does this all even mean?
What the hell is wrong with kids today?

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[–] im_fine_sandy@nord.pub 34 points 4 days ago (2 children)

My AI thingy told me you would do what I told you to.

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[–] PattyMcB@lemmy.world 10 points 3 days ago (1 children)
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[–] Smaile@lemmy.ca 19 points 3 days ago (2 children)

This is a broken person, idk if they can be fixed.

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