Thanks. The chapter title is a hat-tip to Gray and Suri's non-fiction book "Ghost Work: How to Stop Silicon Valley from Building a New Global Underclass"
You're right that engagement-focussed AI girlfriends are a form of transactional intimacy - like digital Thai bar girls will never complain or seek to leave the coercive control of bar owners.
A further irony is that the HIT tasks Jared is doing for pennies on MTurk is for data-labelling companies that supply the training corpus to the very LLM building companies that are then exploiting his emotional vulnerability and loneliness. A dark Ouroboros.
And the chapter end song and it's lyrics: "Come Lie Next To Me" - who is lying to who?
Thanks. The chapter title is a hat-tip to Gray and Suri's non-fiction book "Ghost Work: How to Stop Silicon Valley from Building a New Global Underclass"
https://www.amazon.com.au/Ghost-Work-Silicon-Building-Underclass/dp/1328566242
You're right that engagement-focussed AI girlfriends are a form of transactional intimacy - like digital Thai bar girls will never complain or seek to leave the coercive control of bar owners.
A further irony is that the HIT tasks Jared is doing for pennies on MTurk is for data-labelling companies that supply the training corpus to the very LLM building companies that are then exploiting his emotional vulnerability and loneliness. A dark Ouroboros.
And the chapter end song and it's lyrics: "Come Lie Next To Me" - who is lying to who?