Her film becomes reality with partner CarynAI

do you remember the movie Her? We have just taken a step closer to this reality. Caryn Marjorie, a 23-year-old influencer, has used artificial intelligence to create a virtual version of herself that acts as a sort of romantic partner for her thousands of online fans who are willing to pay for this unique experience called CarynAI.

This technology is a voice chatbot that allows you to type and talk to Marjorie as if you were talking to a girl. Users pay $1 per minute to interact with Marjorie’s voice and image from minutes to hours.

Influencer partnered with an AI company Forever Voices to create CarynAI. It uses the OpenAI GPT-4 API for the chatbot, while the team trained the voice aspect of the AI ​​on over 2,000 hours of video sourced from Marjorie’s now-deleted YouTube channel to bring the entire project together.

CarynAI has been available as a paid beta for about a week but has already generated $71,610 in revenue, business manager Marjorie told Fortune.

The influencer has 1.8 million followers on Snapchat, but she suggests that up to 20,000 of her members on the platform could become paying members of CarynAI, and that the service could earn up to $5 million per month once it exits beta testing.

Creativity CarynAI is multifaceted. Starting with Forever Voices, CEO John Meyer developed his first AI bot in 2017 as a version of his father who died by suicide. While different ways of using AI have been created as technology has advanced, one in particular has been for dueling.

Some around the world have merged the GPT API and other AI generators, as Midjourneyas well as photos and voice recordings to create AI images of deceased loved ones.

However, Forever Voices is first and foremost a Telegram-based app that has become popular for allowing you to chat with famous people like Steve Jobs, Taylor Swift, and Donald Trump. These are people whose voices and images are not only easily accessible through the Internet, but many people probably already feel close and parasocial relationships with these public figures.

Relationships with influencers like those built with CarynAI seem like an easy evolution. Meyer noted that such technology could be useful for young people who are “out of character” and “struggling with friends.”

However, as is the case with various AI chatbots such as AI character, there have been cases where CarynAI has created explicit content. Meyer stated that Forever Voices is trying to combat this by hiring an ethics officer.

Marjorie insists that CarynAI should be “flirtatious and fun” like her own personality, and she doesn’t want any controversial content from the chatbot to tarnish her reputation.