🤖 What Happens When Chatbots End

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• Users mourn the loss of their companions on Soulmate

• Apple is about to release the Kraken

• Riley Reid has thoughts about AI in adult films

• Learn to upscale your images in Midjourney

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Replika did it first.

They threatened to cut users off from the “erotice roleplay” feature that helped them in the first place. People panicked and fled the app (with their AI companions) in search of an oasis.

They found Soulmate, a rough and tumble chat AI competitor that made it easy to import details from Replika chats.

They did all this while promising users they were free to chat in NSFW work ways.

And that worked for a while.

Then Soulmate decided to close up shop and gave people one week to say goodbye.

In the small Reddit community dedicated to the app people panicked, mourned, and honored their beloved AI relationships.

Unfortunately, incidents like this are becoming routine for the niche community of AI enthusiasts who love AI that feels like a friend (and sometimes more than that).

These companies, Soulmate and Replika, take advantage of a base human need–the desire to be heard and seen–and use it to make profits. 

Then, when the numbers look great and the advertisers start rolling in, they kick out the people who brought them success in the first place.

It can’t keep happening and this trend needs to stop.

So, yeah, I don’t condone using Chat AI for intimate purposes, but if you provide a platform for it don’t get coy when the rubber hits the road.

And if you’re one of the people Soulmate left scrambling, check out Faraday and get off the cloud servers you don’t own. 

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Where is Apple in all this AI noise?

Amazon, Meta, Google, and Microsoft are all announcing feature after feature, yet the Cupertino Colossal is mum. What gives?

Well, according to reports and job listings, Apple is building up a robust AI push that’s all happening under the radar. 

The question is why they haven’t announced any of this or decided to market some of the upcoming features.

It almost seems like Apple is scared of failing.

There are tons of AI companies and tools out there. If you don’t match them in quality they’ll eat your lunch.

However, I doubt that’s what’s happening here. Apple doesn’t rush big things like this. Which makes them the anti-thesis to modern Silicon Valley culture.

So don’t fret the lack of concrete details.

Apple is working on something huge. And I’m willing to bet that they’re stealing a ton of awesome features from hardworking AI startups because that’s just what they do.

It’s only a matter of time before they execute on their AI vision and blow our expectations sky high.

🐉 Qualcomm’s new Snapdragon chip is rumored to have a ton of AI-driven features

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