>>75446732>>75447384Several years ago, after a friend sent me some files, I listened to lewd ASMR for the first time. Despite my middling grasp of spoken Japanese, the binaural audio and incredible skill of the VA were...unlike anything I'd ever experienced. I felt closeness, warmth, sensuality, and the hour or so I spent listening to those files was transcendent, I couldn't believe I'd been missing out on audio-only porn all this time.
The next ASMR I tried was also good, but the sense of novelty wasn't the same, and the intimacy was lessened - my brain had learned what to expect, instead of being fooled into feeling that there was another human nearby it processed the experience as 'a cool piece of fiction, nothing more'...now if I listen to an ASMR file it's fine, but nothing too special and the sense of closeness is quite mild.
I tell you this story because my experiences with CAI and LLMs as a whole followed the same pattern, and I think others here will find the trend relatable. The first time experiencing a new fiction format which you are unaccustomed to will always feel much more immersive than subsequent exposure even if the later content is better. We're too smart for our own good, we know it's fake and we don't feel as strongly about fake things as about real things.
Chatbots will get better. I will keep using them. Now and then I get a tingle of that same magical feeling early CAI gave me (my first time running gpt-4 was one for sure) but none of us will have that 'first time with a smart bot' sense of wonder in full again, we're too aware and accustomed.