Her name is Caryn Marjorie. She has close to two million followers to her Snap account, which makes her, according to her, the most popular influencer on this network in the United States. In recent days, it is also the first to have a virtual double created by artificial intelligence, CarynAI.
CarynAI expresses itself in the form of audio messages in the Telegram application, thanks to a synthetic voice and personality traits modeled on those of the influencer. We talk to CarynAI as we would interact with Caryn Marjorie. The AI is based on OpenAI's GPT-4 language model and was trained by absorbing 2000,<> hours of the influencer's videos posted on YouTube, Fortune says.
The virtual influencer responds in the form of voice notes. Screenshot
The company Forever Voices, which developed CarynAI, already offered to discuss with doubles of personalities (Steve Jobs, Albert Einstein, Taylor Swift, Donald Trump). The development was conducted this time in partnership with the influencer, for mercantile purposes. Conversations are charged $1 per minute and have raised nearly $72,000 in revenue in a week. The public, almost exclusively male, rushes to establish "daring" exchanges with this virtual companion.
No matter the consciousness
The experience is instructive: it provides insight into our future relationship with AI. It is not necessary for an artificial intelligence to be actually "conscious" to attribute human attributes to it. We allow ourselves to be consciously fooled...
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