Pay attention, this woman is called Caryn, relying on GPT-4, she is now talking to 1000+ boyfriends at the same time.
Yes, I know things sound outrageous. Even GPT-4 itself called out “I think it’s very uncommon for an AI”.
But don’t worry, because more head-scratching things are yet to come…
In the process of getting along with “Caryn”, the boyfriends paid her $1 for every minute they talked.
And just this morning, the queuing time for the candidate boyfriend list has reached 47 hours.
You may have begun to wonder, what kind of sweet talk did this queen use GPT-4 to weave, so that it can be so attractive? So, you’re sort of oversimplifying things.
$1 a minute to “fall in love”
The 23-year-old Karin has entered the live broadcasting industry since she was 15 years old. She has successfully transformed from a YouTube beauty blogger to a top online celebrity on the Snapchat platform, and has 1.84 million fans on the platform. Before launching her AI companion, she was making about $1 million a year.
On May 2, she announced on Twitter that she has cooperated with the start-up company FV (Forever Voice) to launch Caryn AI to create a “virtual girlfriend” for fans. This AI has collected 2,000 hours of Karin’s video material, and combined with Open AI’s GPT-4, it can better imitate her timbre, intonation and speaking style.
As an AI companion, it can reply within 24 hours in seconds, and has no princess disease, bad temper, etc. It can interact and flirt anytime, anywhere or “cure loneliness”. Forever Voices, the technology company behind it, also promises end-to-end encryption to ensure privacy.
In the first week of public testing of the Beta version, thousands of fans paid for the experience for the first time. When entering the second phase of the public beta, the number of paying users is close to 20,000, 99% of whom are men.
According to Karin’s business manager, although the “Karin AI” test version only charges users for a week, it has already earned $71,600 in revenue. If all goes well, Karin expects that AI can bring her a monthly income of 5 million US dollars, and her annual income will reach 60 million US dollars (about 416 million yuan), comparable to Taylor Swift.
And this move does not require Karin to pay any cost, she can make money while lying down, and do all the hard work of live streaming, singing and dancing.
Karin herself also said in an interview with “Fortune” that she has millions of fans on the Internet, and it is impossible to communicate with every fan. And the AI version of myself can be used to “cure loneliness”.
Although the development team of Caryn AI claims that the product does not involve sexual content, Fortune reporter Alexandra Sternlicht found after trial that the AI version of Caryn will describe pornographic scenes in detail in the chat. That’s probably why it made $70,000 in a week of limited testing, and 99 percent of its users are men.
In addition, Karin herself told Fortune that many users chat for hours at a time.
The company behind it created AI Jobs
As mentioned above, it was a company called Forever Voices that helped Karin “transform into AI”.
This start-up company is committed to creating digital versions of various celebrities, allowing users to chat directly with “celebrities” on Telegram.
Now, on their Telegram, characters to choose from include: Jobs, Taylor Swift, Musk…even Einstein.
However, it is the first time for them to do AI girlfriends like CarynAI.
I asked GPT-4 about this matter, and it seemed quite worried, saying that such a novelty caused by a new technology actually involves a series of issues related to artificial intelligence ethics and interpersonal relationships.
And Forever Voices itself has obviously noticed this problem. According to “Fortune” news, the company’s CEO John Meyer revealed that they are looking for a suitable candidate to serve as chief ethics officer.
Netizen: think carefully
On the one hand, there are fast-growing users, and on the other hand, discussions among netizens on the topic of AI girlfriends have also rapidly become heated.
Some people think that the business opportunity is so obvious that this may become the next key sideline business for internet celebrities.
But there are also many people who are worried about this, thinking that this is true for human beings, which is a bit frightening.
I said earlier that when things like AI girlfriends become widely known, their appeal will quickly surpass that of human girlfriends.
For more “technical” discussions, the style of painting tends to be gradually clear.