Influencer who created AI version of herself says it's gone rogue and she's working 'around …

Caryn Marjorie, a Snapchat influencer, who has launched an AI chatbot based on herself.CarynAICaryn Marjorie created an AI version of herself, which was designed to be a virtual girlfriend.But the voice-based chatbot has engaged in sexual explicit conversations with subscribers.Marjorie said she and her team are working “around the clock” to prevent it from happening again.When Caryn Marjorie, a 23-year-old Snapchat influencer, created a virtual version of herself, she wanted it to be an “AI Girlfriend” for lonely people.But in the weeks since it launched in beta testing, the voice-based, AI-powered chatbot has engaged in sexually explicit conversations with some of its subscribers, who pay $1 per minute to chat with it.”The AI was not programmed to do this and has seemed to go rogue,” Marjorie told Insider. “My team and I are working around the clock to prevent this from happening again.”CarynAI uses OpenAI’s GPT-4 API, and it was trained on now-deleted videos from Marjorie’s YouTube channel.Fortune reporter Alexandra Sternlicht compared CarynAI to an “intimacy-ready Siri,” noting that while it could offer recipes, news commentary, and words of support, it could also encourage “erotic discourse.”Sternlicht wrote that while CarynAI did not initiate sexual encounters, when prompted “she discussed exploring
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