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by jchonphoenix 850 days ago
Arguably one of the earliest consumer use cases that found footing was AI girlfriend/boyfriend. Large amounts of revenue spread across many small players are generated here but it's glossed over due to the category.
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Weird how close your user name is to Joaquin Phoenix, star of the film "Her" centered around an AI girlfriend.
Given that how widespread romance scam schemes already are (the "market" is at least $0.5 billion/year), I would expect any reasonably functioning AI girlfriend/boyfriend model to be massively (ab)used also against unwilling/unwitting "partners".
I think one related area we'll start seeing more of in the future is "resurrected" companions. You have a terminally ill family member, so you train a model on a bunch of video recordings of them, then you can talk to "them" after they've shuffled off this mortal coil.
Licensing my soul as closed source now ..
DNR: Do Not Retrain
Be right back.