{"id":298,"date":"2024-03-07T16:07:10","date_gmt":"2024-03-07T16:07:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/aiandfilm\/?p=298"},"modified":"2024-03-07T16:07:12","modified_gmt":"2024-03-07T16:07:12","slug":"yors-your-new-ai-girlfriend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/aiandfilm\/2024\/03\/07\/yors-your-new-ai-girlfriend\/","title":{"rendered":"YORS &#8211; Your New AI Girlfriend"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>For my project, I chose to look at the intersection of AI &amp; gender, desire, love, sexualization, objectification, and nonconsent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Quite frankly, it made me kind of sick producing this video, but I wanted to make it as true to reality and accurate as possible. How do I know it&#8217;s accurate? I downloaded an AI girlfriend in order to generate the dialogue given from the AI in the video. The entire project was generated using Runway AI, which I too had to pay $15 for. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-vimeo wp-block-embed-vimeo wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YORS - Your New AI Girlfriend\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/920507981?dnt=1&amp;app_id=122963\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture; clipboard-write\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Like we had seen throughout Ex Machina and Her, these AI girlfriends seem to become a projection of male desire&#8211; seemingly apt for a male-dominated tech industry, and boy are these AI apps marked by desire. Not only that, but the want for a &#8220;perfect girlfriend&#8221; who is not, you know, actually a human person, who is subservient and lacks any depth. Perhaps a twist of Demon Seed, perhaps it is us who the AI should really be scared of. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The name &#8220;Yors&#8221; is based quite simply on the language of love we talk about in class&#8211; that is, possession and ownership. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I wanted to portray accurately the types of promises and problems that AI girlfriend apps bring. I worried in the creation of this, that it was too sexualized, too overt. But then I remembered it was being advertised to men, so, you know.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For my project, I chose to look at the intersection of AI &amp; gender, desire, love, sexualization, objectification, and nonconsent. Quite frankly, it made me kind of sick producing this video, but I wanted to make it as true to reality and accurate as possible. How do I know it&#8217;s accurate? I downloaded an AI [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6946,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-298","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-midterm-projects"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/aiandfilm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/aiandfilm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/aiandfilm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/aiandfilm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6946"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/aiandfilm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=298"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/aiandfilm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":303,"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/aiandfilm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298\/revisions\/303"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/aiandfilm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/aiandfilm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=298"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/aiandfilm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}