Love seeing stuff like this, and it makes me want to try this exercise myself!
A couple places which clashed with my (implicit) models:
This starts a whole new area of training AI models that have particular personalities. Some people are starting to have parasocial relationships with their friends, and some people programmers are trying to make friends that are really fun or interesting or whatever for them in particular.
The worst part of this is the bots that make friends with you and then advertise to you stuff. Pretty much everyone hates that.
I predict that the average person will like this (at least with the most successful such bots), similar to how e.g. Logan Paul uses his popularity to promote his Maverick Clothing brand, which his viewers proudly wear. A fun, engaging, and charismatic such bot will be able to direct its users towards arbitrary brands while also making the user feel cool and special for choosing that brand.
Love seeing stuff like this, and it makes me want to try this exercise myself!
A couple places which clashed with my (implicit) models:
This is arguably already happening, with Character AI and its competitors. Character AI has almost half a billion visits per month with an average visit time of 22 minutes. They aren’t quite assistants the way you’re envisioning; the sole purpose (for the vast majority of users) seems to be the parasocial aspect.
I predict that the average person will like this (at least with the most successful such bots), similar to how e.g. Logan Paul uses his popularity to promote his Maverick Clothing brand, which his viewers proudly wear. A fun, engaging, and charismatic such bot will be able to direct its users towards arbitrary brands while also making the user feel cool and special for choosing that brand.