One minute, one dollar! American internet celebrities use GPT to create virtual girlfriends, earning $70000 a week

Zhao Ziyi, Editor of Pengpai News (00:38)

Virtual partners may become a new business in the AI field.

On May 10th local time, a report by Fortune magazine showed that a internet celebrity named CarynMarjorie, who has 1.8 million followers on the Snapchat platform, earned nearly $72000 in revenue after launching her own model of "virtual partner" CarynAI.

At present, CarynAI has become a virtual girlfriend for over 1000 people, and subscribers need to pay $1 per minute to have conversations with this chat robot.

It is understood that CarynAI was officially launched in early May, and users can chat with her through the Telegram platform. Previously, this chat robot was in the invitee only testing phase, but starting from this Tuesday, CarynAI will officially expand its testing scope and open it to more users.

According to the official website of CarynAI, their team combined OpenAI's GPT-4 technology and used Caryn's over 2000 hours of YouTube material to train virtual partners, fully "restoring" her voice and personality. According to the official website, "CarynAI can bring you dynamic and unique interactions, and this process is like directly talking to the real Caryn

Whether you need comfort or want to complain about things happening in school or work, CarynAI will always be by your side, "Caryn herself said." You can make unlimited attempts through CarynAI, and through dialogue, everything is possible

This new attempt has brought significant revenue to Caryn. Fortune magazine stated that although CarynAI only charged users a week's fee during testing, it has earned nearly $72000 in revenue from 99% of male users.

Caryn predicts that it may bring more wealth in the future - if 20000 of her 1.8 million followers on the Snapchat platform pay for CarynAI, this artificial intelligence can generate $5 million in monthly revenue.

CarynAI is the first virtual avatar of a romantic partner for artificial intelligence company ForeverVoices. The CEO of the company, John Meyer, once created an AI robot to simulate his father who died of suicide. After this attempt, he hired engineers to create AI characters for celebrities and make them act as virtual companions for ordinary people.

The company has produced virtual models of many celebrities, including Steve Jobs, famous singer Taylor Swift and former President Donald Trump of the United States. Users can have paid conversations with them through Telegram.

This technology has raised concerns about ethics and safety, and Meyer stated that "ethics is a factor that he and the engineering team attach great importance to," and they are seeking to hire a chief ethics officer.

According to Fortune magazine, evolutionary biologist Robert Brooks, a professor at the University of New South Wales in Sydney, believes that establishing close relationships with AI online celebrities may lead users to prefer virtual relationships and escape from real relationships. This is particularly important for young users who are in the throes of adolescence, as they are in the stage of learning basic social skills and establishing intimate relationships.

Currently, ForeverVoices is not the only company proposing to use AI to establish virtual partners. DeepMind co founder Mustafa Suleyman and LinkedIn co founder Reid Hoffman, founded AI company Inflection, recently launched an artificial intelligence chat robot called Pi, aimed at listening to users share their daily lives and providing a "support hotline". So far, Inflection has raised $225 million in seed funding and is in talks to continue raising $675 million.