# 05 How Do I Love Thee, Let Me Count the Prompts

**DESCRIPTION:** Based on the readings for Week 04 (\*see bulleted READINGS list below) develop a relationship with an online identity (\*or if this is too uncomfortable to you, produce a speculative fiction work about your relationship with an AI service, robot or agent). This relationship can be platonic or romantic in nature. **DOCUMENT** via screen shots, videos, text files this blossoming relationship. At the end of the week, **WRITE** a  [❤**love letter**](https://vimeo.com/14813183) or [💔**breakup letter**](https://vimeo.com/11854531) to your AI friend, based on your feelings about the experience.  **INCLUDE** the AI's response to you, and/or add any personal anecdotes about the experience.&#x20;

* The documentation of this creation can be collected in a .pdf, a slide presentation, a video, or in some other form, for example a talking avatar telling the story of your relationship, or you performing the&#x20;
* You should engage with your AI friend no fewer than 3 times during the week, for at least 15-30 minutes.&#x20;
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**READINGS:**

* &#x20;"[My AI Lover"](https://drive.google.com/file/d/1vIJJT1LjKq6znIXqf4XgOhOnZHrcBo0U/view?usp=drive_link)
* &#x20;["Are We All Technosexuals Now?"](https://drive.google.com/file/d/1xoBBnjftEwaSwb8On3ndKp7nrK0qfX7_/view?usp=drive_link)
* &#x20;[**"**&#x41;.I. Is Making the Sexual Exploitation of Girls Even Worse"](https://drive.google.com/file/d/1EKYyoAIuW7lDLSciOzyVhCbHw6A3KuEh/view?usp=drive_link)

**SUGGESTED APPS:**

* <https://replika.com/>
* <https://candy.ai/>
* <https://goodfriend.ai/?ref=taaft&utm_source=taaft&utm_medium=referral>

**INSPIRATION:** \
\&#xNAN;*HER*, 2013, an unconventional love story between a human man and an AI operating system.&#x20;

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*I'm Your Man* (2021) A scientist at the Pergamon Museum in Berlin is persuaded to participate in a study to get funding for her research. For three weeks, she must live with a humanoid robot designed to be the perfect life partner for her.

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Love and Sex with Robots (2006): A leading expert in artificial intelligence, David Levy argues that the entities we once deemed cold and mechanical will soon become the objects of real companionship and human desire. He shows how automata have evolved and how human interactions with technology have changed over the years. Levy explores many aspects of human relationships—the reasons we fall in love, why we form emotional attachments to animals and virtual pets, and why these same attachments could extend to love for robots. Levy also examines how society's ideas about what constitutes normal sex have changed—and will continue to change—as sexual technology becomes increasingly sophisticated.
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**EXAMPLE:**

Below are excerpts from a conversation that my "AI avatar" C.A.R.L.A. G.A.N. (Crossplatform Avatar for Recursive Life Action Generative Adversarial Network) had with a virtual friend on candy.ai. In this conversation she explains to the chatbot (that is set to "human mode") that she is virtual. He debates with her over this, and expresses how much he prefers "real experiences."

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