Yeah, I just looked that up. It does highlight the option of throwing a few dollars at a farm for a few hours to get your AI fix. Vaguely related, this is the second and third comment from the
thread that is being quoted as leaking this beyond
the image board that shall not be mentioned:
It's funny that part of the [the image board that shall not be mentioned] excitement over this is that they think they'll get back the AI girlfriend experience of when character.ai was hooked up to uncensored GPT-3. All that has been thoroughly shut down by character.ai and Replika and they just want their girlfriends back.
The Repilka subreddit became one of the weirdest places on the internet when their model got capped for adult content.
Hundreds of men (and yes women) full on acting like they lost a spouse and posting constantly about it for weeks. AI is going to create some unusual social situations the general public isn't ready to grasp. And we're only in the early alpha stages.
There is a story there that I do not know, but I am not sure I want to know.