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[–] arc99@lemmy.world 28 points 2 days ago (1 children)

What does that gibberish even mean?

[–] NihilsineNefas@slrpnk.net 14 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 5 points 1 day ago

Thanks. I still can't be arsed parsing this

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[–] HostilePasta@lemmy.ml 101 points 2 days ago (3 children)

Translation:

Hey, can you break up with your girlfriend? I have a pretend relationship with you and it makes me genuinely uncomfortable to know you have a real-life partner. Also, please delete photos of yourself. I don't want other people to have pictures of my 'fictional other'. Thank you!

P.s. the AI of your character that I believe I'm in a fictional relationship with said you would do these things.

[–] Tolos@lemmy.world 31 points 2 days ago

Thank you, I could barely follow that

[–] zbyte64@awful.systems 26 points 2 days ago (1 children)

The last line broke my brain. Had to read it a number of times to understand. So an influencer got this message where a fan made an AI version of the influencer and that AI told the fan to send these messages. 😳

[–] Catma@lemmy.world 28 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Not an influencer I dont think but a character the person was the voice actor for, hence the VA in their username.

The person found or made an AI of that character and that AI of the fictional charactr said the voice actor would do all this if the insane person messaged them.

[–] zbyte64@awful.systems 14 points 2 days ago

I don't know how, but that seems worse.

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[–] communist@lemmy.frozeninferno.xyz 15 points 2 days ago (5 children)

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

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[–] Bluedragon012@lemmy.world 9 points 1 day 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?

[–] Baggie@lemmy.zip 101 points 2 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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[–] billwashere@lemmy.world 36 points 2 days ago (6 children)

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

[–] hardcoreufo@lemmy.world 13 points 2 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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[–] Kazumara@discuss.tchncs.de 62 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 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 29 points 2 days ago

Bait, severe mental illness or both.

[–] khepri@lemmy.world 26 points 2 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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[–] Aeder@lemmy.world 17 points 2 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.

[–] bitchkat@lemmy.world 43 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 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 15 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 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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[–] starik@lemmy.today 16 points 2 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.

[–] Nasan@sopuli.xyz 3 points 1 day ago

Fujifilm enjoyers bypassing all the drama

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[–] DigDoug@lemmy.world 198 points 3 days ago (15 children)

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

[–] Zeppo@sh.itjust.works 144 points 3 days ago (85 children)

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

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[–] betterdeadthanreddit@lemmy.world 80 points 3 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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[–] zod000@lemmy.dbzer0.com 57 points 2 days ago (1 children)
[–] CrabAndBroom@lemmy.ml 45 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I think it will eventually be known as Evidence.

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[–] muhyb@programming.dev 105 points 3 days ago (5 children)

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

[–] sundray@lemmus.org 139 points 3 days ago (15 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 89 points 3 days ago (1 children)

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

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[–] daggermoon@piefed.world 2 points 1 day ago

How the fuck is lusting over anime characters a sexuality?

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[–] ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world 62 points 3 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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[–] RampantParanoia2365@lemmy.world 25 points 2 days ago (1 children)

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

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[–] OozingPositron@feddit.cl 2 points 1 day ago

This is so incredibly stupid lmao

[–] AlcoholicPenis@futurology.today 22 points 2 days ago

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

[–] Blackmist@feddit.uk 74 points 3 days ago (2 children)

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

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[–] MutantTailThing@lemmy.world 82 points 3 days ago (2 children)

What the fuck am I reading?

Prosecution's exhibit A.

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[–] Hawanja@lemmy.world 16 points 2 days ago (1 children)

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

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

Glad to see others seeing this.

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