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I was thinking about this, because I'm really into selfshipping, and talking to character-based chatbots is a pretty common activity in that community, but I've never used one and don't want anywhere them. There's of course the ethical issue of them scraping from fanfiction/original writing without the authors' permission, like other forms of generative AI do, and that'd be enough of a dealbreaker for me right there, but I also just genuinely have no desire to use one. I watched a video where a guy was talking to an AI chatbot of himself (that he uh, didn't authorize anyone to make... and it was also clearly trained on his voice, which he hadn't given permission for either so uhh big yikes), and I just remember thinking that the face/artificial voice was super uncanny valley
I've also heard plenty of horror stories of chatbots "going rogue" and suddenly putting out some extremely problematic content with no prompting, which unfortunately can happen when there's no human intent behind the writing, and it's just a script trying to figure out what word goes next, based off writing stolen from lord-knows-what.
If I want to "talk" to my favorite characters, I'd much rather stick with video game dialogue, where they're deliberately written to be a certain way by actual people, and speak with actual human tone/emotion if there's voice acting. And if they're not from a video game, or I hit the end of the scripted dialogue, well, there's always my
But these are just my thoughts on them! Feel free to share your feelings on chatbots, and experiences you've had if you use them/used them in the past.

I've also heard plenty of horror stories of chatbots "going rogue" and suddenly putting out some extremely problematic content with no prompting, which unfortunately can happen when there's no human intent behind the writing, and it's just a script trying to figure out what word goes next, based off writing stolen from lord-knows-what.
If I want to "talk" to my favorite characters, I'd much rather stick with video game dialogue, where they're deliberately written to be a certain way by actual people, and speak with actual human tone/emotion if there's voice acting. And if they're not from a video game, or I hit the end of the scripted dialogue, well, there's always my
But these are just my thoughts on them! Feel free to share your feelings on chatbots, and experiences you've had if you use them/used them in the past.