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Inside the Mind of an AI Girlfriend (or Boyfriend)

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Dippy is a startup that offers “uncensored” AI companions.

The company recently launched a feature that lets users see the reasoning behind their AI characters’ responses.

Dippy runs its own large language model, which is an open source offering fine-tuned using role-play data, which the company says makes it better at improvising when a user steers a conversation in a particular direction.

“Some people who use these apps are socially isolated, and these apps create further silos through their emotionally validating algorithms that don’t challenge existing conditions,” she adds. Rather than just looking inside the minds of AI companions, then, we may need to take a closer look at how people are interacting with these apps to understand the real benefits and risks..