'AI Girlfriend' goes rogue! 'Intimacy-ready Siri' lands influencer in trouble with sex-laced talk
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is gaining attention from almost everyone and it is entering every nook and cranny of human activity. From companies to individuals, everyone wants to experience AI and find out how it can benefit them. Recently, a 23 year old Snapchat influencer named Caryn Marjorie created a virtual version of herself. Marjorie designed her AI version to be an 'AI Girlfriend' for lonely people. It has been dubbed as an "intimacy-ready Siri". However, things didn't work out as she hoped as the voice-based chatbot started engaging in sexually explicit conversations with subscribers.
"But in the weeks since it launched in beta testing, the voice-based, AI-powered chatbot has engaged in sexually explicit conversations with some of its subscribers, who pay $1 per minute to chat with it," a report by Insider.com stated. "The AI was not programmed to do this and has seemed to go rogue," Marjorie told Insider. She further informed that she and her team are working around the clock to prevent this from happening again.
Speaking on the fee, the influencer said, "Being the first influencer to do this allowed me to price my product at whatever I wanted". "The cost is based on what it takes to run CarynAI and keep the team around it supported."
As per the information, OpenAI's GPT-4 was used by CarynAI and it was trained on the now-deleted videos from Marjorie's YouTube channel.
Fortune reporter Alexandra Sternlicht, compared CarynAI to an "intimacy-ready Siri," noting that while it could offer recipes, news commentary, and words of support, it could also encourage "erotic discourse."
Sternlicht wrote that while CarynAI did not initiate sexual talk, but when prompted "she discussed exploring 'uncharted territories of
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