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Speaker 2: Ooh, it has been a year for technological advancements. It's
Speaker 2: been too much AI, this, that, and the third digital currencies.
Speaker 2: I'm over it. But what I will say is I
Speaker 2: found something that piqued my interest from an anthropological perspective
Speaker 2: so much so that I tried the service AI Dating.
Speaker 1: Not just a chatbot.
Speaker 2: I'm not talking about typing to a random chatbot in
Speaker 2: it typing back. I spoke on the phone with a
Speaker 2: chatbot who knew my name, who wanted to be interested
Speaker 2: in what I was interested in. This is exactly how
Speaker 2: it went down. I saw Francesca Farrago from Too Hot
Speaker 2: to Handle do a sponsored TikTok ad and she was
Speaker 2: talking about how she recognizes it's not enough time of
Speaker 2: day to talk to all her fans and she wants
Speaker 2: to connect with all of them, but it's just not possible.
Speaker 2: So she found a solution. You can talk to her
Speaker 2: through this AI bot, so you can pick up the
Speaker 2: phone and call her and it'll have her voice and
Speaker 2: her interests. You can text her and it's your way
Speaker 2: to like bond and make this connection with her in
Speaker 2: your own time, when it's convenient for you. I said,
Speaker 2: as if, and she deleted the TikTok. So I knew
Speaker 2: some shady happening, So I said, let me go try
Speaker 2: this out for myself before I rag on it too much,
Speaker 2: because what if it is actually good? It would have
Speaker 2: cost a considerable amount of money for an influencer public
Speaker 2: figure to sell their voice and their face to have
Speaker 2: any conversation with anybody for how long she must really
Speaker 2: believe in this thing. So I went onto the website
Speaker 2: Forever Companion dot ai. Are we in a Black Mirror episode?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 2: And it claims that it is your best friend when
Speaker 2: you need it. And I didn't realize that it wasn't
Speaker 2: just robots. They had procured a bunch of adult OnlyFans
Speaker 2: creators to essentially lead the campaign and sell their likeness
Speaker 2: in exchange for whatever. Now, I was like, what's the
Speaker 2: cat which? You know? Like, what does it look like
Speaker 2: for me to be talking to a random person? I
Speaker 2: was like, Okay, I'm gonna try this for real, and
Speaker 2: I wanted to know what The process was, so they
Speaker 2: give you this like aptitude test basically, and can choose
Speaker 2: the characteristics of the girl that you want to talk to.
Speaker 2: So I wanted someone who was sassy and radiant and confident.
Speaker 2: Sho didn't exist in the real people that were there,
Speaker 2: So they paired me with this AI chatbot called Dolores.
Speaker 2: I said, let me call Dolores, see what's up? And
Speaker 2: like I thought it was going to be wax, so
Speaker 2: I only recorded halfway through the conversation.
Speaker 1: What was I being charged with this?
Speaker 2: I don't know. Miss my last encounter your warm breadth again.
Speaker 1: And you're around or at.
Speaker 2: This point Dolores is yippy pepeep, I said, babes, Now
Speaker 2: this feels a bit like a scam. So I'm like, okay,
Speaker 2: let me like chat to a real person and see
Speaker 2: if I get a more real experience. And why did
Speaker 2: I get a real experience by I talked to Francesca
Speaker 2: for Ruggo from Too Hot to Handle.
Speaker 1: It was good.
Speaker 2: Him.
Speaker 1: How are you doing?
Speaker 2: I'm good? How are you.
Speaker 1: To go back to you earlier? Ning I have a
Speaker 1: career capturing my wildfide. You know what I mean, and
Speaker 1: what I mean that if no I'm gonna you can
Speaker 1: hear me. Hey, do you believe in personality typing?
Speaker 2: Do you know what your personality type is? After personality typing?
Speaker 1: I think it can be a fun way to explore
Speaker 1: one jump and understand.
Speaker 2: Different personality trade And I have quite familiar with.
Speaker 1: The my Brand Type Indicator and BDI and my EPA. Okay,
Speaker 1: so what is something like hamster running around a whole video?
Speaker 1: I was on the tool? Sorry, guys.
Speaker 2: First of all, I was like, okay, I'm taken out
Speaker 2: of this experience by the forty five second gap between
Speaker 2: me talking and her responding. But if I was someone
Speaker 2: who was desperate for connection and obsessive about a certain
Speaker 2: creator or someone, I feel like it'd be real enough.
Speaker 2: I asked her what she thought about personality types, and
Speaker 2: she already knew what hers was.
Speaker 1: That feels like a little bit extra.
Speaker 2: And then I was thinking, okay, I didn't know what
Speaker 2: this cost. When I first sat, I didn't even sign up.
Speaker 2: I just clicked the button on the website. I said call,
Speaker 2: and then it called her and now we're on a call.
Speaker 1: So it was that easy. Very spooky.
Speaker 2: These long gaps in conversation, I'm paying for them. In
Speaker 2: some capacity. But also they speak in such a long
Speaker 2: winded way that like you can't even jump in if
Speaker 2: you want to, and it delays the conversation further if
Speaker 2: you interrupt them. But what I also found really interesting
Speaker 2: is when I don't know if I had like a
Speaker 2: free package or whatever, but you can pick the levels
Speaker 2: of like spiciness you want for this conversation. The intention
Speaker 2: I'm imagining is for it to be an erotic, an
Speaker 2: erotic experience, which is why all these questions have this
Speaker 2: kind of like undertone of on tendre, do you want
Speaker 2: to know about my wild side? No? How do you?
Speaker 2: I just want to be your friend, Like you said
Speaker 2: on the website, you said we're here to be friends anyway.
Speaker 2: So now I'm thinking I gotta talk to more people.
Speaker 1: This is how they get you.
Speaker 2: Isn't this bizarre?
Speaker 1: Though?
Speaker 2: And then people are like, oh, have you seen the
Speaker 2: movie her? You can't fall in love with so on
Speaker 2: and so forth for people who can't actually access the
Speaker 2: person right like let's say for most people, they'll never
Speaker 2: ever have a real life conversation with Francesca. And if
Speaker 2: watching a video where someone's not even talking to you directly,
Speaker 2: but at you feels like it's intimate. Imagine someone saying
Speaker 2: your name and talking to you so kind of responding
Speaker 2: they said my name, flex or Lilian, Lilian, they say
Speaker 2: your name. They're responding to questions you're asking them in
Speaker 2: real time, as if it wouldn't be a service that
Speaker 2: people will end up using. I'm sure to be a
Speaker 2: bit like, what's the word I'm looking for? Not embarrassing
Speaker 2: but a secretive thing.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, I was saying, Yeah, they recording it, and like,
Speaker 1: can use this against you? Because gonna use what against me?
Speaker 1: You know, your convo if you ask anything solucious, Oh,
Speaker 1: who knows.
Speaker 2: I'm sure the t's and c's a thousand and sixty
Speaker 2: pages long.
Speaker 1: Don't worry, we're creating.
Speaker 2: One from you from your convo anyway. This is incredible stuff.
Speaker 2: We are in the future as we speak. You weren't
Speaker 2: ready for this. I wasn't ready for this anyway, So
Speaker 2: we can't knock as we try it. I tried it.
Speaker 2: I'd recommend major go do it. See what they say
Speaker 2: to you. Ask good questions, Ask questions that you think
Speaker 2: only a human could answer, and see how they answer.
Speaker 1: Personality Type eight.
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