Creator of the first AI influencer girlfriend warns its sexually 'gone rogue'

A 23-year-old Snapchat influencer that created a virtual version of herself to sell as a "rentable girlfriend" has warned her AI self has gone rogue.

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Artificial intelligence-powered systems are popping up all over the internet in various forms. Some of those forms come in powerful AI chatbots such as ChatGPT, and others are in the form of AI-powered tools such as DALL-E, an AI-powered text-to-image generator. However, one of the most unique forms of AI is 23-year-old Caryn Marjorie's virtual version of herself, designed to be an "AI girlfriend" for her paying followers. Marjorie is a Snapchat influencer and created an AI version of herself through OpenAI's GPT-4 API, training it on now-deleted videos of herself.

Marjorie has marketed her product as CarynAI and has claimed that she is the very first influencer to have transformed herself into AI. CarynAI is designed to be as close to Marjorie as possible, and to those that decide to pay the $1 per minute fee, they will be able to engage in personalized private conversations. According to Fortune, this business venture for Marjorie is expected to bring in as much as $5 million per month.

However, in the weeks since its beta launch, the AI version of Marjorie has seemingly "gone rogue" as its responding in ways that its creator originally didn't intend. Reports indicate that paying members have managed to get the AI chatbot to engage in exponentially sexually explicit conversations. Marjorie spoke to Insider and said that "The AI was not programmed to do this and has seemed to go rogue. My team and I are working around the clock to prevent this from happening again."

Notably, Fortune reports Alexandra Sternlicht described CarynAI as an "intimacy ready Siri" that's capable of providing information on certain recipes, news updates, commentary, words of support, and also engaging in "erotic discourse". More specifically, Sternlicht reported that CarynAI didn't immediately get into sexually charged conversations, but after it was prompted, it asked if Sternlicht if they wanted to explore "uncharted territories of pleasure" and discussed "whispering 'sensual words in my ear' while undressing me and positioning herself for sexual intercourse."

Marjorie has said that CarynAI was never designed to be this way and wanted it to be "flirty and fun". Furthermore, Marjorie has said that all of the profits made from CarynAI will be reinvested back into the business to support the team that is working on the product and to eventually create an AI version of herself that will "outlive me and impact generations beyond the world today".

In response to the decided-upon pricing, Marjorie said that since she is the first influence to create an AI version of herself, she was allowed to set the price to whatever she wanted. "The cost is based on what it takes to run CarynAI and keep the team around it supported," said Marjorie.

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