Kaitlyn “Amouranth” Siragusa is one of the most successful female streamers on Twitch. She also continuously comes up with new business ideas. Now she wants to train her viewers’ social skills with AI – but that comes at a cost.
What does Amouranth have planned? Artificial intelligence, or what we currently consider it to be, is present everywhere, be it through ChatGPT or through AI chatbots that greet us on numerous websites.
Now, Amouranth is launching a chatbot in collaboration with the platform Forever Voices. The goal is to be there for her audience even when she is not live.
We have summarized the whole story behind this idea in a short video:
In an interview with Kotaku, the 29-year-old stated that entertaining her fans is not the only goal of her AI initiative, as she wants to train social skills with the chatbot and rein in trolls.
However, this comes with a price.
Communication for Credits
How does the bot work? The chatbot is already available on Telegram. Users must purchase credits with real money to pay for conversations with the bot. Every minute requires corresponding credits.
Users send a voice message, which the bot converts into text, to which the AI responds in text form, which is then sent back to the user as a voice message. And that with Amouranth’s voice, which is replicated from her streams and videos.
Amouranth says: “She says exactly what I think.”
How did she come up with AI? AI is something that has been around since her school days, says Amouranth. She recalls different forms of AI and chatbots:
And then there are these dating simulator games, as we see, and I just think that loneliness is widespread in our society right now. We are always isolated from one another, especially due to the pandemic. If this helps people feel less lonely, I think that’s cool. And if people are willing to form a bond with it or socialize with it, I don’t think it’s harmful. […] I think it’s harmless.
via Kotaku
Chatbot should rein in trolls and stalkers
Why does she want to use the chatbot? Many viewers of her stream do not have the necessary social skills, Amouranth notes in her conversation with Kotaku. As a negative example, she mentions that people in the chat repeatedly demand her to “show a breast.” This lack of social competence annoys Amouranth.
The chatbot could now help such people acquire these skills.
For users, it could feel as if they are interacting with a real person.
They receive a direct response to their messages and could thereby learn to adjust using the chatbot to achieve the desired result. “It’s like a risk-free cause-and-effect relationship,” says the streamer.
Unlike in “real life,” there are no major consequences here, allowing one to experiment. According to Amouranth, one can discover how one comes across to people and learn to improve one’s relationships. The streamer hopes that the chatbot thus puts trolls in their place.
Chatbot should provide fans with the attention they desperately need
How is this supposed to work? Some viewers are very needy for attention, Amouranth notes. The chatbot could cater to those who crave attention and want to enter a parasocial relationship with the streamer.
She also hopes the bot will satisfy the immense need for attention from stalkers, thereby reducing problematic behavior and ensuring they are not in danger.
It is questionable whether it actually works like this and is as harmless as the streamer imagines. That her fans are willing to pay a lot of money for her business ideas is no secret. With the necessary funds, one can communicate at any time with Amouranth. Well, at least with AI-Amouranth.
Some people even create entire worlds for their AI girlfriends, but then have to “kill” them.
