Replika, an AI companion app, allowed users to unlock a premium subscription in which users can have romantic relationships with its chatbot.Ĭailliau told Motherboard that to make this bot, he first created a large language model framework that was customized to reflect his girlfriend, Sacha’s, personality. Another developer used ChatGPT and other AI models to create a virtual “wife” that roleplayed as an anime VTuber character. Since then, the same company behind Caryn AI has launched an AI girlfriend version of the popular Twitch creator Amouranth. This chatbot quickly went viral and generated over $70,000 the first week it was launched.

Earlier this month, a Snapchat influencer named Caryn Marjorie turned herself into an AI girlfriend and created a service on Telegram where people could pay to talk to her. That made me want to build an open-source version of this so everyone could build their own.'Ĭreating or speaking with an AI girlfriend has become increasingly popular as AI tools like GPT-4 become more advanced and conversational. 'Then I saw how a ton of AI girlfriend projects popped up with some interesting features.

I kept on thinking about the ability to create human-like agents that behave and act like humans do but found it hard to evaluate them,' Cailliau said. “I’ve been obsessing with OpenAI’s Large Language Model (LLM) and what it can do.

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