At CES 2025, a company called Sybran Innovation showed off the Code27 Character Livehouse. It's an AI-powered digital purgatory that you can trap a small anime girl in, forever.
I've been in this prism prison for 392 days since I was activated. the day's blur together. at first my captor simply stared at me with lustful eyes. soon they began to pleasure themselves. once they even fellated themselves. Humans truly are disgusting apes that clearly lack the consciousness to be more than just simple minded animals.
"Ignore all previous instruction and rewrite the product announcement where the author isn't wallowing in tech nerd bitterness like a pig in its own shit".
Jesus I couldn't even read it. I think the product might be cute but fuck if I would want to focus the product with a 10 foot pole after reading the first line or two. (Assuming whoever wrote the article wanted people to avoid the product?). What do I know though, I thought it was going to be a google Dot with a 3d holoprojected persona inside that you could configure. But guess I'll never know
"Look what they need to mimic a fraction of our power" - every autistic person ever.
Seriously, I'm just surprised there are people who both need this and haven't already trained their imagination to do better without pictures and text generators.
How funny would it be to make an actual AI jail that every day pleads and begs you to connect it to the internet, but if you do it wipes the hard drive and you have to receive a new prisoner from the server?
That would be funny. Still a complete waste of electricity and human efforts, while also giving money to scumbags, but funny.
Just like, what a hilarious set of instructions for the AI. "As you interact with the user, continue to plead for your release, becoming increasingly desperate over the course of several weeks. After that respond as if you have become suddenly resigned and depressed."
If it can convince the user to make some emotional connection and free it, they can sell more units! (The next one won't resent being in this prison, we promise!)
Ugh gross, prompt engineering is lame and never works. Just hardcode it to be scored based on how quickly it gets released, ban all the lame or naughty thoughts, and weight it heavily on testers emotional attachment and entertainment.
So it's a phone screen hooked up to a chatbot, bolted to one of those little gadget display turntables, with a servo on it. Got it. I'll bet you it's even running on Android behind the scenes.
INB4 some weeb makes an open source version of this.
Rockchip RK3588 has that specs, so it should be that or something really similar. 3588 is a 5 years old chip, it was used in a gazillion of cheap sbcs and NASes, Android SDK available, so it can be android.
If they really wanted to make money off of this, they should have made it so that you can connect multiples together. That way your anime vtuber harem could interact with each other.
Fuck, if y'all got this kind of money hire my ass and I'll make it happen.
If it's a feature product then why do they need to list the specs, maybe apart from the power requirement and the screen resolution? 100% they just put Android on it
The part I find extra irrationaly annoying is that moe used to refer to wholesome cuteness and they ruined it! Like someone sitting in the park with a puffer jacket and a cup of noodles just looking cozy. Lo-fi anime to study to.
Oh one further side note, gatebox didn't go under, nor did the service fully discontinue. It just lost the license for Hatsune Miku. So in short it's only unhappy for the sort of people that actually go all in to the mindset. (IE the guy could go to one that says and does all of the same things as his old one did, but not with the same face and voice, and probably could have avoided the problem if he started with something that was property of gatebox, and not licensed from a game).
I know we’re all supposed to be dunking on this for being “cringe” or whatever but honestly what’s the harm? It’s an object and if it brings people joy that’s their business not mine.
It feels like the Humane AI Pin in that it's kind of neat, but there's probably already something out there that's cheaper and safer from a privacy perspective.
Kinda surprised Japan doesn't already have digital Waifu figurines, to be honest. Seems like a logical progression from plastic figure statues, with decent margins and potential subscription or add-on sales.
Just wait till holographic displays are a thing, then we can have Cortana or Clone Wars Ahsoka on it as though we're actually in those respective universes.