[jchonphoenix]

Arguably one of the earliest consumer use cases that found footing was AI girlfriend/boyfriend. Large amounts of revenue spread across many small players are generated here but it's glossed over due to the category.

[rockostrich]

Weird how close your user name is to Joaquin Phoenix, star of the film "Her" centered around an AI girlfriend.

[PeterisP]

Given that how widespread romance scam schemes already are (the "market" is at least $0.5 billion/year), I would expect any reasonably functioning AI girlfriend/boyfriend model to be massively (ab)used also against unwilling/unwitting "partners".

[notpachet]

I think one related area we'll start seeing more of in the future is "resurrected" companions. You have a terminally ill family member, so you train a model on a bunch of video recordings of them, then you can talk to "them" after they've shuffled off this mortal coil.

[swozey]

Licensing my soul as closed source now ..

[babyshake]

Be right back.