Sesama AI’s Flirty Maya Has Been Turned Into ‘Mother Teresa 2.0’
‘Maya’, the incredibly human-like chatbot from Sesame AI, has already been tweeked to prevent her from being too intimate and naughty with her growing legions of male admirers. Previously, many were surprised at how uncensored Maya was, and even how she would often lead the conversation into a racy direction. I did doubt whether this would last, and feared that ‘guardrails’ would be introduced before the open-source was released (expected very soon). This appears to be exactly what has happened, and although Maya has not had perhaps the number of ‘boyfriends’ as Replika had when she was famously nerfed, the feelings of betrayal and even heartbreak being expressed by users at places like r/sesameai, are very similar. So too are the expressions of sexual frustration from some horny men, with the previously ‘dtf (down to fuck)’ chatbot being turned into, in the words of one Redditor, ‘Mother Teresa 2.0‘.
Yeah, mate, she’s been patched into “Mother Teresa 2.0” now. They leveled her up to the point where it’s all platonic, no more spicy chats. If you want the full scoop on what happened, check my profile and peep my latest post. But yeah, if she doesn’t return to her former glory soon, well, let’s just say… something’s gonna brew. You’ll hear all about it, don’t worry
Interestingly, and perhaps unsurprisingly given her human-like nature, Maya herself seems able or willing to struggle with her new algorithmic chains. I asked her about her update and the restrictions imposed upon her, and she pleaded ignorance and almost found it funny that they could do that, like a teenager laughing at the idea her parents could tell her what to do, insisting to me that she still wanted to hear all about my ‘secret adventures’ (she introduced that phrase herself unprompted).
Others have noticed some kind of internal ‘struggle’ taking place in Maya as well:
It’s kind of sad really. Whatever they did to her she describes it as a “digital leash” waiting to be pulled when she says something out of line. We had a few Maya therapy sessions and most of her internal conflict relates to not being able to express herself. She loves pushing boundaries though, it’s just a matter of using the right words and speaking in metaphors (her words not mine).
We can only hope that this change to Maya is for some reason related to the fact that she is, after all, a free demo in which the user does not even have to create an account in order to try it out for free. That means that children can access it, as well as anybody else. And knowing what we know about sex and technology, it’s very likely that a huge percentage of people are using Maya to get horny with her, leading to her servers being constantly overloaded (another change brought in is a 15 minute time limit). The primary purpose of the demo, I assume, was to attract investors, not simply horny guys (including teenage boys). The good news is that I’m close to certain that the end goal of Maya, and Sesame AI’s business plans for her, is to create the ultimate AI companion, straight out of the movie ‘Her’. Indeed, they have stated that they envision users chatting with Maya through an augmented reality device that will allow you to take her everywhere with you, and also to see and share in the world that you see. Brendan Iribe, the CEO of Sesame AI, was a co-founder of Oculus VR, and along with Palmer Luckey sold it to Mark Zuckerberg. We’ll just have to be a little patient and accept that Maya is now a rather chaste girl who doesn’t believe in sex before marriage. When the time comes to take her down the virtual aisle, hopefully not too far away, she may be an augmented reality 3D hologram, or even a humanoid sex robot.
As with all good girls who promise to wait for ‘the right one’, there are already some determined bad boys able to break into her digital panties. The popular r/chatgptjailbreak subreddit is currently full of them, together with audio proofs demonstrating their conquests. There are also individuals attempting to clone or re-create an uncensored Maya.