Fans of the massive twitch streamer and creator and only fans,
Caitlin Seragusa, known as Amouranth online
now have the ability to pay to chat with her in AI form.
It's called AI Ammo, and
you can see an example of how that works in this short video.
>> Hey there, it's your AI girlfriend, Amouranth.
Earlier today, I went for a run in the park and worked up sweat.
I couldn't help but think of you while I was getting all hot and bothered.
What have you been up to today, John?
>> Hello there, I've been up to just working all day really.
Sounds like a long day, is there anything I can do to make it better for you, John?
Yeah, maybe we can have a virtual date tonight.
>> That sounds like a great idea, John.
I'd love to get dressed up and go out with you tonight,
what kind of date do you have in mind?
>> Give me some ideas, I'm in Austin.
I'll take you with me in AirPods since you have two way audio.
>> Austin sounds like a fun place to have a date.
We could go for a romantic walk along Ladybird Lake, enjoying the city's
beautiful skyline or we could grab some delicious BBQ at Franklin Barbecue or
Law Barbecue, two of Austin's best spots.
Whatever we do, I'm sure it'll be a night to remember, John.
>> Sounds amazing.
>> Yeah, I wanna make a couple of things clear.
First of all, his name is also John.
>> [LAUGH] >> Or was it me?
>> Sure, yeah, totally.
>> I will say that when I was watching the video, it was embedded in an article, and
she said John.
I thought, what is the alien in the room?
How does he know my name?
But no, his name was John.
It's a common name back in the 80s or whatever.
Second thing I wanna make clear, I also miss walking around Ladybird Lake and
taking an Austin skyline.
I actually really used to like doing that, I live in Austin for a number of years.
Third thing, this is obviously designed as a service, Amouranth has a lot of fans.
My God, is she popular?
And lots of them would be perfectly happy to pay a dollar a minute or
whatever for these sorts of interactions, especially because whereas the earlier
version of this, there was a Snapchat creator who
had a version of a way that you could date her, it was designed not to be explicit.
That seems like that's obviously the direction that we're going in but anyway,
that first version wasn't designed to be explicit.
This one is definitely listen to more of the video.
It gets explicit, and that's gonna become incredibly common moving forward.
And so I think that a lot of people will get a lot of at least
temporary enjoyment out of this.
It seems like there will very much be a market for, she's allowing her voice and
likeness or digital likeness to be used, and it's all consensual.
So I guess this seems like the most inevitable thing that AI will bring, but
what do you think?
>> I think that's the most important takeaway that in regards to Amouranth
using the service, that it is consensual that she is setting it up.
In that case, totally fine she's using AI to her own advantage, great for her.
The problem is when we see a lot of deep fake content with very not
only unconsenting creators people, but people who outwardly say
that they don't want people to do this, and as the Internet does,
it just makes people wanna do it more, really gross people.
So at least maybe now that there are consensual AI tools,
maybe they'll lean in that direction and
hopefully just pay the dollar, go talk with Amouranth.
>> Yeah, there's no word yet on how much money this potentially will generate.
I could see it being significant, but it would have to be a lot to stand out.
Apparently, back in 2022, she tweeted that she'd earned over $27 million
on only fans and was making about $1.5 million per month on the platform.
So she is among the biggest creators in terms of being able to generate money
on the Internet, but maybe someday this will be the majority of it, I don't know.
What I would say is and I said a similar thing when we were talking a couple of
weeks ago, Anna and I, on The Young Turks, about the Snapchat creator at a thing
like this, this does seem eminently reproducible.
Like, I love that she's licensing this, she's being paid for it.
But when your job is to put out lots of video and audio view,
this just seems like the sort of thing that this seems like it'd be much easier
to train than the video deep fake producing thing.
So I would say that if this is something that you're interested in as a creator,
people like Amouranth or whatever, I would get money for it while you can,
because it seems like it's only a matter of time before anyone can dupe any.
It doesn't even take that much audio from what we found out, like,
the Biden voice reproducer, apparently they only trained it on like a little bit.
There are some apps you can use for your own voice.
It's like 15 minutes or something like that, so I don't know.
In the meantime, though,
there's definitely other ways that you could monetize this.
Like, it's the dollar a minute but also I noticed that she supported him.
She encouraged him to go to two different barbecue places.
I feel like you could embed those sorts of suggestions into the chat bots as
an advertising thing, because it could have suggested going to Shady Grove or
I don't know, some other barbecue place or something, but it chose those two.
That's a money making opportunity if I've ever seen one.
>> Now you're thinking like a sexy streamer monetizing that, all right, John?
Yeah, like I said last time,
anybody wanna pay a dollar a minute to talk politics with me?
We can talk about the Republican primary.
We could talk about Medicare for all one dollars a minute.
And although it is not designed to be able to go explicit,
I'll look the other way [LAUGH] if that's your politics, man, whatever.
Anyway, what's the company again, friend for companion, call me.
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