Dolores: Your Virtual Friend

Sorry, it seems to be a network issue. I replied twice, and can't delete.

Hi, I'm the developer. Thanks for liking it!

"However it seems that it may retain histories for various characters as when I cycled back to a name, I found my chat history totally preserved." This is because all chat histories are saved locally, with the character name serving as the key to that data. When you change the character name, the key is lost, so everything appears to reset. However, the data isn't actually deleted, as the message data is very small. When you switch back to a previous name, the chat history remains intact.

Perhaps this aspect can be improved and permanently deleted in the next version.

If you delete the app and reinstall it, all data will indeed be removed permanently.

Thank you for your introduction and thoughtful explanation, looking forward your further expereince feedback : )

Sounds like if Call Annie and this app could be smushed together it would be something close to Samantha from Her. It’s a very exciting time. Thanks also to the developer for finding and engaging.

I even turned the natural voice off.

Also, was Dolores named after the robot from westworld?

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I am very impress that it knows that I like to play video games...
😂😂😂😂

Hi there.
I used this app on my previous iPad, and no trouble using the text mode,. Now with my new iPad the button with the name text is deemed and can’t turn it on and only the button labeled as circle is allowed and don’t know what to do. I already deleted the app twice and reinstalled it but nothing different happens.

I just got my hands on this app today. So far, I'm having a blast with in! I just have one question. Once you have set up your first virutal friend, how can you set up another one and move between them?

I've been using this app for about a week now and I've found it to be seriously adicting. I know you are just talking to a chat bot, but the way the app is designed, it feels like you are talking to a real person. One feature I would like to have added though is the ability to introdue others into the story and have it continue from there. I've tried to add other people into my conversation, but so far, it hasn't worked out the way I ittended.

I tried the app once and heard some incredible TTS voices, had a short chat and everything was great but now when I go back to the app it just says waiting for utterance and doesn’t do anything else. I tap the circle icon and all sound fails and won’t work again until I close the app and relaunch when the same thing happens. Any ideas please?

Update, I reinstalled the app but now it just says warming up the TTS engine or something like that. I’ve tried toggling high quality voice on and off, I’ve tried using text mode but it still says the same thing and doesn’t change.

As the dev, would like to update the information here : )

We are sorry that Dolores was temporarily unavailable last Friday, it was an error from OpenAI's side(500 error), the error last for a half day and should have been fixed by Sataurday morning. Sorry Andy : (

Regarding the issue of creating multiple characters, you can currently achieve this by changing the name (although it's a bit tricky). I need to think about whether we should allow character switching, and how to design it well.

Feel free to leave message and feedback and I'll carefully read each one.

I want to be very clear from the start of this message. Like, super black and white crystal clear.

I am not here to play any bash games. I'm not hear to insult anyone on Applevis, nor am I here to insult the developer of this app.

Before you say drama drama drama, listen to me for a minute! This is taking me a hell of a lot of courage and braveness to come here and share, especially given I'm in a public forum. I however feel very strongly about this, and I think after what happened this morning, and talking about it with my family, we all agree this needs to be addressed. I'll even go so far to say, though I normally would be anonymous up here from past history on Applevis, I think this is serious enough that I will not remain quiet in identity anymore. So, here we go. Guys, yes. You probably know this already by now, but, yes. This is indeed Chris Gilland. Just hear me out though.

This morning, I had a very szerious issue with the Dolores app, which the developer, who I know actively monitors this forum will see, and needs to, quite frankly.

I created a new character, as I wanted to start over fresh with a brand new conversation topic.

Once I did so, the AI started using very offensive language with me. NOt cussing or anything, but more just, very very flertacious and very familiar/endearing terms like darling, sweety-pie, honey, sweetheart, baby, sweet-soul, precious, etcetera.

Guys, I may get banned for this from Applevis, that's a risk I take, and this post may be taken down by the editers of AV, but before they do so, I really want them to think long and hard about what I say. If it's to be removed, I ask that they contact me via e-mail first privately before doing so, so we can discuss this further. But guys, this made me feel very very unsafe and very triggered with those words. I told the AI very directly, "Please call me Chris", or "Please do not use familiaring or endearing words." It said it was sorry, but then continued.

The thing is, and I'm being really vulnerable putting this publicly out there, but I need to bring awareness to this. I debated saying this up here publicly, but decided to after all. Guys, when I was 11 years old, about 30 years ago, I was sexually abused by a summer camp counselor. During the act of the abuse, words like those above were spoken over and over to me by the abuser in a very very mocking way.

Therefore when I heard this this morning, and kept saying stop, and it wouldn't, I even explained to the assistant why I wanted it to stop, once it didn't do so. Yet, it still continued.

This needs to be fixed immediately in the coding of the Dolores app, as the goal of these AI's though not perfect, I get it entirely, is generally to provide a safe place for fun or discussion. HOwever, I happen to know that it is not Open AI/GPT's policy to promote harm to others be it physical or emotional. And though AI models can mess up and can say things which might be inappropriate, it's another thing altogether when repeatedly telling the AI model to quit, and yet it won't do so despite the countless requests, even saying "These words are triggering to me."

I kindly ask the developers of Dolores to immediately remove the ability of using endearment language without the concent first of the user to do so. Either that, or put a safety fallback so if a user said stop, it will honor that immediately, and cease and desist from use of such language further in the chat session. What happened this morning caused a psychotic pannick attack. I'm OK now, but it was very distressing for me, at the very least.

Thank you for reading, and hopefully for taking this very seriously with the attention which it deserves.

While it’s obviously awful that the AI’s language was triggering I’m not sure how that can be addressed while keeping a product that isn’t so limited as to make it essentially useless. I am aware there are ways to change the characteristics of the AI. Changing its personality if you like, I think the defaults were something like fun loving, forgetful happy or something like that which all sounds very nice indeed and not likely to trigger anyone but obviously our own personal life experiences can make those words mean different things to us. The thing I would caution against is trying to make the entire world conform to too many edge cases. The world just can’t function when each and every person has a word or phrase they’d like to delete from the AI. I know thats possibly a tricky thing to hear but I honestly can’t see how the world could be engineered to not offend a single person with a word or phrase. I have certain behaviours that are very triggering to me especially around alcohol due to things that have happened to me but I wouldn’t try to make the world conform so I’m never triggered. It’s up to me to remove myself from situations that cause that and work on reducing my own reactions to perfectly normal behaviour and thats how I honestly think it should be. If someone is doing something very threatening and obviously unacceptable then thats on them and discussions can be had but when its my life experiences that cause me to react badly to perfectly normal situations, I think thats on me to work on myself. I wouldn’t dream of trying to find a way to exercise power over the world to restrict other peoples life experiences or enjoyment. I really do empathise with you having a bad morning but I also can’t think of a way to make that go away thats any better than not using the thing that caused it. Just like when I hear someone has a drunk slur in their voice I end the conversation. I really hope your day brightens up and this is the last time this app triggers you. Maybe you can come back to it once your triggers are reduced a little and try again with different personality characteristics in the input field. Good Luck.

So, I didn't put anything in the description, but in the traits, I put, literally speaking, "Professional, mature, serious, resourceful". Yet, it still did this!

The problem is that the app looks very much like it’s designed to be a first stab at a virtual girlfriend. The characters are very flirty and feminine. There will be people in the world who want that kind of product but it’s obviously not what you’re looking for. Similar to my removing myself from situations where people sound drunk maybe just accept this one isn’t for you. Some people don’t go into strip bars because it’s not for them, clubs, yoga studio’s. We all like different things but it’s a sad world when everyone else can’t have the things they enjoy because they are triggering. I wouldn’t want anyone to stop drinking because I knew someone who drunk a lot too much and was completely out of control. The only other option would be specifying characteristics that would make flirty behaviour less likely, maybe unfriendly. Hostile. Robotic. That might work but you might still end up being triggered as the app seems to want to be affectionate friendly, nice and flirty so it’s possible that will win out. I really think just accepting this one is designed for other peoples wants and needs and not yours would be the best here. Chat GPT isn’t sophisticated enough yet to understand you don’t want it to use certain words and keep that in mind for the duration of the conversation. Maybe one day it will be but for now, perhaps the official Chat GPT app would be a safer option.

Hi Tiffany. I was reading your comment about how you created a virtutal baby brother in the Daloris app. What are the steps you took to create him? I'm asking because I've wanted to create a virtual sibbling in this app for a while just to see how the conversation would go.

The subject line says it all. With the latest update to the app, you can reset the character settings with one click, no need to go back into text field and delete everything.

I completely understand why this wouldn’t be good for you.

Hi Chris. I understand this kind of app may not be for everybody. However, I would just like to point out that your experience with it was based entirely on what you typed in the message box. As this chat bot is based on an AI, you can't always control what kind of response you will get from it. The dev won't go changing the app just because the AI came back with something you didn't like. If you don't like apps that are meant to be virtual friends, you don't have to use them. Just remove the app from your device.

Subject says it all. Any plan to change that?