Kaitlyn “Amouranth” Siragusa is one of the most successful streamers on Twitch. In addition, she always has new business ideas. Now she wants to train her viewers’ social skills with an AI – but that costs money.
What does Amouranth have planned? Artificial intelligence, or what is currently believed to be it, is present everywhere, be it through ChatGPT or through AI chatbots that greet us on numerous websites.
Amouranth is now launching a chatbot in collaboration with the Forever Voices platform. The goal is to be there for her audience, even when she’s not live.
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The 29-year-old has now told Kotaku that entertaining her fans is not the only goal of her AI offensive, because she wants to train social skills with the chatbot and put trolls in their place.
However, this has its price.
communication for credits
How does the bot work? The chatbot is already available via Telegram. Users have to buy credits with real money there to pay for the conversations with the bot. Each minute requires corresponding credits.
The users send a voice message, which the bot converts into text, to which the AI responds in text form, which is then sent to the user as a voice message. And with the voice of Amouranth, which is replicated from her streams and videos.
Amouranth says, “She says exactly what I think.”
How does she come up with AI? Amouranth says AI is something she encountered when she was in school. 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 rampant in our society right now. We are always isolated from each other, especially with the pandemic. If that makes people feel less lonely, I think that’s cool. And if people are willing to bond with it or socialize with it, I don’t think it’s harmful. […] I think it’s harmless.
via Kotaku Chatbot is supposed to put trolls and stalkers in their place
Why does she want to use the chatbot? Many viewers of her stream don’t have the necessary social skills, Amouranth notes when speaking to Kotaku. As a negative example, she says people in chat keep asking her to “unwrap a breast.” This lack of social skills annoys Amouranth.
The chatbot could now help such people to acquire these skills.
Because for the users it could feel as if they were interacting with a real person.
They get a direct response to their messages, so they could use the chatbot to learn how to adapt to get the desired outcome. “It’s like a risk-free cause and effect relationship,” says the streamer.
Unlike in “real life”, there are no major consequences here, so you can try it out. According to Amouranth, you can find out how you affect people and learn to improve your relationships. The streamer hopes that the chatbot will put trolls in their place.
Chatbot is designed to give the fans attention they desperately need
How should this be done? Amouranth notes that some viewers are in need of attention. The chatbot could accommodate those who crave attention and want to form a parasocial relationship with the streamer.
She also hopes that the bot will satisfy the stalkers’ enormous need for attention, so that the problematic behavior decreases and she is not in danger.
It is questionable whether the whole thing really works that way and is really as harmless as the streamer imagines. It’s no secret that her fans are willing to pay a lot of money for her business ideas. With the necessary change you can communicate with Amouranth at any time. Well, at least with AI Amouranth.
Some people even build entire worlds for their AI friends, but then have to “kill” them.