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[โ€“] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

eye got chu fam

My favorite part, is that ALL of the current AI companion products use subscriptions to LLM services instead of having built in models.

Which means ~~if~~when the company stops paying their bill, or if the AI company goes under, your waifus goes kaput. Or more likely just restructuring because of a buyout. It's already happened with a few companies -> big tech buys out the company then stops supporting the product line, that then customers get mad. IIRC, coincidentally HP is being sue for doing just that with some recent buyout right now lmao.

The ante seems to get upped each time, and there exists at least one unstable lonely maniac that will not consider legal consequences to their actions when they are suddenly rugpulled out of their unhealthy addictive relationship, so there's still room for the bubble to burst in an even more epic crash.

[โ€“] Pacattack57 7 points 6 days ago

200k and they still want to milk you for a subscription ๐Ÿ˜‚