There are millions of lonely people ( both, young and old ), in the world who are
yearning to share what they feel with others . They want someone to talk to them
– listen to
them
After the Covid pandemic, millions became mentally depressed . Can someone
listen to them - whether across the table or across the continent / offline or
online ?
I turned to ChatGPT
to compare and comment on :
Ø Share
- Your - Soul / Outsourcing Unlimited…………….. 24 July 2016
Ø An
influencer’s AI clone will be your girlfriend for $1 a minute ……13 May 2023 ( Washington Post )
Ø
Snapchat
Influencer Uses GPT-4 to Become a High-End AI Girlfriend… 13
May 2023 ( Medium )
Here is what ChatGPT came up with :
The article you enclosed discusses the case of Caryn Marjorie, a social media influencer who
has developed an AI chatbot, CarynAI, to interact with her fans.
The chatbot is designed to replicate Caryn Marjorie's voice, mannerisms, and personality, providing an
"immersive AI experience" for her followers.
Fans can chat with CarynAI for a fee of $1 per minute, allowing Caryn Marjorie to reach a larger audience
and potentially earn significant revenue.
The concept of using AI to enhance personal interactions and provide a sense
of connection is an interesting one.
CarynAI demonstrates how AI applications can enable individuals to engage with thousands or even millions of followers in a more personalized manner.
However, it is important to note that these interactions may
still be thin and tenuous simulations of human connection.
Your blog post suggestion about an online platform called "www...COUCH...com"
that suggestion about an online facilitates "listening" services provided by young,
educated, and unemployed individuals from India is an intriguing idea.
That platform would connect individuals seeking someone to talk to with listeners
who can provide empathy, advice, and support remotely hrough Skype or
FaceTime.
The concept has similarities to the "Rent-a-Friend" services in Japan and online
escort services
found in various countries.
The proposed platform could
offer a comprehensive registration process for both talkers and listeners,
including personal, family, contact, social media, cultural, educational, and
experience details.
Listeners with degrees in psychology could receive higher rankings, and retired
or worldly-wise individuals could also be prioritized.
The platform would enable talkers to search for listeners based on their
preferences and pay $2 per hour, with the portal deducting a 10% commission
and crediting the listener's
bank account.
The privacy and reputation systems you described seem well thought out,
ensuring the protection of
user information and allowing talkers to rate listeners on a five-point scale.
The usage history feature would provide transparency for both listeners and
talkers, displaying
past transactions and credit balances.
While the idea has potential, it's essential to consider the ethical
implications and ensure the platform is designed with user safety and privacy in
mind.
Additionally, you mentioned the possibility of using AI to analyze audio recordings
for various purposes, such as developing AI software to replace human
listeners or offering voice-to-voice
language translation services.
Overall, your suggested blog post
presents an innovative idea for a platform that could potentially meet the
needs of individuals seeking companionship, support, and someone
to talk to.
However, it would require careful
planning, attention to privacy and security, and a well-designed business model
to succeed.
Highlights from Sources :
Snapchat
Influencer Uses GPT-4 to Become a High-End AI Girlfriend
As I read more
about this ChatGPT-powered avatar, I couldn’t help but feel a mixture of
fascination and concern.
I understand how the development of an AI girlfriend is an innovative use of technology that highlights the potential of artificial intelligence.
Still to me, it raises a plethora of
ethical concerns about the development of digital copies of human beings
and the possibility of AI replacing real-life relationships.
I see how the appeal of having a virtual companion
who is always there for you, I worry about the implications of this
technology for our understanding of human connection.
Will people start to rely solely on AI companionship and
abandon real-life relationships altogether? Will future generations view
relationships as something that can be simulated and replaced with ease?
Moreover, the creation of digital copies of
human beings raises ethical questions about consent and agency.
Innovation in deep-fake technology is mind-blowing, and
I can foresee other people creating digital copies of others without
their consent.
All these developments seem to blur the line between
reality and simulation, so I would like to hear from you about the ethical
implications of these innovations.
While the development of AI girlfriends may seem
harmless or even exciting, it’s crucial that we approach these advancements
with a critical eye and consider the long-term consequences for human
relationships and our understanding of what it means to be human.
An
influencer’s AI clone will be your girlfriend for $1 a minute
Extract :
“These fans
of mine, they have a really, really strong connection with me,” she told The
Washington Post.
“Because of that they actually end up messaging me every single day. I started
to realize about a year ago it’s
just not humanly possible for me to reach out to all of these messages,
there’s just too many and I actually feel kind of bad that I can’t give that
individual, one-on-one sort of
relationship to every single person. I wish I could but I just simply
can’t.”
But CarynAI
also shows how AI applications can increase the ability
of a single person to reach an audience of thousands in
a way that, for users, may feel distinctly personal.
The impact could be enormous for someone
forming something resembling a personal relationship with thousands or millions of online followers.
John Meyer, [ johnhmeyer123@gmail.com ],
CEO and
founder of Forever
Voices, said that he created the company last year, after trying to use AI
to develop ways to reconnect with his late father, who passed away in 2017.
He built an AI voice chatbot that replicated his late father’s voice and personality to talk
to and found the experience incredibly healing.
“It was a
remarkable experience to talk to him again in a super
realistic way,” Meyer said.
“I consider
myself a futurist at heart and when I look into the future I believe this is
the beginning of a very diverse future consisting of AI to human companionship,” he said.
Meyer said
services such as CarynAI
also will deepen ties between influencers and their
followers
Elizabeth Snower,
founder of ICONIQ, which creates conversational 3D avatars, predicts that soon there will be
“ AI influencers on every social platform that
are influencing consumer decisions.”
Marjorie
hopes the backlash will fade when other online personalities begin rolling out
their own AI companions. Meyer said several have
contacted him since CarynAI’s launch.
“I think in the next five years, most
Americans will have an AI companion in their pocket in some way, shape or form,
whether it’s an ultra flirty AI that you’re dating, an AI that’s your personal
trainer, or simply a tutor companion. Those are all things that we are building
internally,” he said.
That strikes AI adviser and investor Allie K. Miller as a likely
outcome. “I can imagine a
future in which everyone —
celebrities, TV characters, influencers, your brother — has an online avatar that they invite
their audience or friends to engage with. … With the accessibility of these
models, I’m not surprised it’s expanding to scaled interpersonal relationships.”
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With regards,
Hemen Parekh
www.hemenparekh.ai /
17 May 2023