Yeah, but can we really call it an AI "revolution" until someone makes a door with a cheerful and sunny disposition that opens with pleasure and closes with the satisfaction of a job well done? Someone should get to work on those Genuine People Personalities!

Many of them get caught, slaughtered, dried out, shipped out and slept on. None of them seems to mind this and all of them are called Zem.

There's also Forever Voices, which offers those with unhealthy parasocial relationships with real streamers/influencers the opportunity to talk to an AI version of them for $1 per minute.

https://www.polygon.com/23736317/amouranth-ai-chatbot-date-i...

https://fortune.com/2023/05/09/snapchat-influencer-launches-...

This is incredibly sickening. This is women teaming up with a technology company to extract money from vulnerable, mentally unwell people suffering from some combination of soul-crushing loneliness and delusional thinking. Even if some customers are aware that they're engaged in delusional thinking, this is still nauseatingly exploitative of a comparatively lower socioeconomic class, one that may be suffering from mental illness.

I see very little difference between this and those infomercials that sell wildly overpriced mass-produced crap to the elderly suffering from cognitive decline.

Yes it’s worse than what came before. But I see it as a continuation of both addictive games with pay to win IAP who prey on similar whales, and streaming in general with “pay to be noticed”.

It’s not necessarily game-changing, from the perspective of $$ extraction, but definitely a very significant advancement.