Emotional AI Bonds
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A story about how users of Replica, an AI companion app, react emotionally when the AI models are updated.
"They update the model so as machine learning improves, or when you go from GPT-3 to GPT-4, they upgrade the model. Then the users are like 'My girlfriend is different - she's saying different things to me, what the hell?'
Sometimes it's censorship - she won't say things she used to say, she says she's not allowed to talk about that anymore, or her personality changed. And users are like 'I'm heartbroken.' It's crazy - if you go to the Facebook groups or the subreddit, people are really emotionally affected by these changes.
I talked to the founder, she was really cool, really smart woman. I think she used to be a famous journalist in Russia, then had to flee Russia, reinvented herself and created this AI company. She's really impressive. I wanted to invest but the valuation was super crazy, in the hundreds of millions, because they're a consumer AI company that actually has a bunch of traction and revenue, which is pretty unheard of."
Sam Parr
Host of MFM and fitness influencer
Sam Parr is a serial entrepreneur and business media pioneer.
In 2016, he founded The Hustle, a business news media company that started in his kitchen with just $12 and grew to eight figures in revenue.
Sam led the charge in making newsletters popular when few believed in their potential.
After four successful years, he sold The Hustle to HubSpot, a publicly traded company. Now operating as HubSpot Media, The Hustle reaches 3 million readers daily, employs a team of nearly 100, and has been the launchpad for dozens of its staff to found their own media companies and newsletters.
Sam remains the host of the popular business podcast, My First Million, and continues to start and sell companies. He also co-founded Hampton, a highly vetted community for entrepreneurs, founders, and CEOs, and teaches people to write better through his platform, Copy That.