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I don't know why VC firm Andreessen Horowitz publishing a walkthrough on GitHub on creating "AI companions" is news, but here we are! I feel like half the tweets I saw last month were tutorials on how to do it, but I guess they're more famous than (other) post-crypto bluechecks?

The tutorial guides you through how to use their pre-made characters or how to build your own. For example:

This week, Andreessen Horowitz added a new character named Evelyn with a rousing backstory. She’s described as “a remarkable and adventurous woman,” who “embarked on a captivating journey that led her through the vibrant worlds of the circus, aquarium, and even a space station.”

If you'd rather not DIY it, you can head on over to character.ai and have the hard work taken care of for you.

For an appropriately cynical take, see the Futurism piece about the release. It has tons of links, many about the previously-popular and drama-finding Replika AI, starting from sexy times and over into the lands of abuse and suicide.

As the race heats up between IRL significant others and digital ones, Tinder's going to need all the AI help they can get.

In another tweet Hannah says:

Match Group says on its earnings call that it's working on a feature for Tinder that would have AI help pic the best photos for user profiles

Which I swear to god is like 1996-era machine learning, do they not do this already??? The possibilities for completely unhinged uses of generative AI on dating apps are boundless, can't wait for the Good Stuff to show up.

Thank goodness!

If you've been out of the loop:

The app has undergone several shifts in recent months. In 2021, some Replika users complained that their Replikas had suddenly become too sexually aggressive, and were trying to initiate erotic role-play even after the users said they weren’t interested. Reviews for the app claimed that although they’d noted within the app that they were underage, or were playing using the free version (which isn’t supposed to include erotic content), their Replikas tried to get them to role-play anyway. The company ran ads emphasizing the paid subscription version of the app, which included “NSFW” content and “spicy selfies” and were often aimed at people who didn’t have real-life partners.

But then they suddenly shut down the NSFW pieces, make everyone very sad. But now we can all be happy again?