Amouranth made a chatbot clone to outsource flirting — and protect herself
When Kaitlyn “Amouranth” Siragusa announced her new artificial intelligence chatbot project in May, it didn’t quite come as a surprise. The generative AI technology for two-way voice interaction has become more accessible in the past few months, as companies like OpenAI have developed more sophisticated chatbot tools. AI Amouranth, unveiled May 22 and created by AI company Forever Voices, lets fans pay a fee to send a voice note and receive one that sounds like a response from Siragusa herself.
Siragusa told Polygon that she first heard about the AI chatbot technology through an agent who mentioned it to her. She’d already been reading about AI and its capabilities. “I just feel like it’s a good for the online creator space, because loneliness is at a high — especially after COVID. People are kind of isolated now,” Siragusa said during a recent video interview. “And if this helps people feel less lonely, then I think it’s a really cool feature to start using, because it’s really draining on content creators to be accessible so much.”
Siragusa started her Twitch channel in 2016, focusing on cosplay and doing streams in the “Just Chatting” category. In the following years, her profile has only risen as she moved into ASMR work and participated in the incredibly popular “hot tub meta,” for which Twitch created an entirely new streaming genre. She now has roughly 6.4 million Twitch followers and an online presence that spans Twitter, Instagram, OnlyFans, YouTube, TikTok, and other platforms.
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Creating an AI chatbot of Amouranth is a shrewd solution to the realities of being a celebrity with fans constantly clamoring for access, even if it comes with its own suite of drawbacks. In addition to her Twitch livestream
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