Videographer Amouranth said her AI project based on her image got off to a very good start. According to her, her erotic clone generated $34,000 in 24 hours.
Will streamer Amouranth’s initiative to launch an AI that imitates her image catch on among adult content creators? The amount that the person concerned has just won thanks to her “virtual double”, barely 24 hours after its launch, will undoubtedly encourage reflection.
A real-fake Amouranth who simulates a relationship with you
The American gave news of his project on January 4, 2023, via his personal account on X (formerly Twitter). According to the young woman, her chatbot (called Amouranth AI) intrigued and seduced enough Internet users for it to generate more than 34,000 dollars (around 31,000 euros) in 24 hours. She has not since given any further information on the winnings.
A famous videographer who began his career on Twitch, before moving towards erotic and then pornographic content, Amouranth attracted attention at the start of the year with a conversational agent that simulates his personality. This, in order to offer a unique experience to its fans. This simulation personalizes texts and can generate photos, sounds or videos.
Several subscription levels are offered, depending on the degree of intimacy that one seeks with this artificial presence of Amouranth (the real Amouranth never intervenes in the interactions, everything relies on the previously trained chatbot). The amounts range from $6 per month (friend status) to $200 per month (boyfriend status), with two intermediate thresholds.
Of course, even paying $200 a month, this pseudo-romance isn’t exclusive. This subscription is not reserved by Amouranth AI for you alone. The chatbot remains accessible to anyone wishing to maintain this parasocial relationship, that is to say one-way: you think you are forming a special relationship with Amouranth, but she does not knows not.
This project, which we started hearing about in spring 2023, could be expected to develop, with progress in artificial intelligence. There are many tools that allow you to generate text, produce images, sometimes videos, but also sounds. In particular, it is enough to train the models on the basis of a history of content – which is what Amouranth did.
Modest amounts spent by Internet users
Apart from the gross sum announced by the videographer, we also learn that on average, Internet users have paid 20 dollars per month, which is insufficient to access all the possibilities of this AI – in particular to benefit from the connection. more “intimate”. Another observation from Amouranth: a large part of his customers do not follow his account (around 40%).
It is impossible to know whether Amouranth’s AI is promised increasing success, which would materialize with increasingly numerous and expensive subscriptions, or whether it is just a flash in the pan. Perhaps it was above all curiosity that played a role in these first subscriptions (the average amount suggests so), in order to see if the AI really imitates the young woman.
For her, it is possibly a good financial transaction, if a loyal base is maintained. This could not only offset the initial costs of developing this conversational agent, before providing it with a more or less high nest egg. Because the advantage of this AI is that it can have several friends at the same time. And it’s “a doll who never says no » (which raises, in itself, real questions related to consent).
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