• body_by_make
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    69 months ago

    I forget the name of the service, but this is exactly how a popular ai chatbot came around. Somebody wanted to talk to a friend who had died and they made a bot using messages they’d sent and then spun it up into a generic bot service that a lot of people use as fake boyfriend/girlfriend AI

    • @Numuruzero@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      69 months ago

      Replika is probably what you’re thinking of. It was nice when it started, sort of like a journaling app in a way but which could return insights. Then it started getting monetized, of course.