Snapchat influencer launches an AI-powered 'virtual girlfriend' to help 'cure loneliness'

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Snapchat influencer launches an AI-powered 'virtual girlfriend' to help 'cure loneliness'
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Snapchat influencer Caryn Marjorie, who has 1.8 million subscribers, launched an AI-powered, voice-based chatbot that she hopes will 'cure loneliness.'

Thursday that he is"Proud of our team for the thousands of hours of work put into this," calling the partnership with Marjorie"an incredible step forward in the future of AI-to-Human interaction!"report, CarynAI generated $71,610 in revenue after one week of beta testing the"virtual girlfriend." Fans reportedly pay $1 per minute to use the chatbot and there are currently over 1,000 users.

Irina Raicu, director of internet ethics at the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics at Santa Clara University, said the launch of CarynAI seems premature"because problems that should have been absolutely anticipated don’t seem to have been.” These kind of grand claims about a product’s goodness can just mask the desire to monetize further the fact that people want to pretend to have a relationship with an influencer

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