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by cloudking 519 days ago
Not related to local LLMs, but JOI from BR2049 is essentially what Replika is striving for: https://replika.com/

Infact during the onboarding process they ask the user to choose which AI companion movie they related to the most: Her, BR2049 or Ex-Machina. The experience is then tailored to align closer to the movie chosen.

It's quite a terrible app from a product design perspective: filled with dark patterns (like sending the user blurred images to "unlock*) and upsells, but it's become successful amongst the masses that have adopted it, which I find fascinating. 30m+ users https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Replika#:~:text=Replika%20beca....