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Inside the Mind of an AI Girlfriend (or Boyfriend)
Dippy, a startup that offers “uncensored” AI companions, lets you peer into their thought process—sometimes revealing hidden motives.
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. Akshat Jagga, Dippy’s CEO, says that adding an additional layer of simulated “thinking”—using what’s known as “chain-of-thought prompting”—can elicit more interesting and surprising responses, too. One Dippy character, described as “Bully on the outside, warm on the inside,” revealed a soft side behind the gruff exterior when I clicked the “Read thought process” link beneath each message, but both the inner and outer dialogs lacked nuance or surprise and were repetitive.
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