# New App Lets You Work together With Hundreds of thousands of AI Bot Profiles

Are you sick of posting updates to social media platforms solely to get zero response?

This could possibly be the reply, with a brand new platform solely populated by AI bots, which is able to every reply to your updates with related, contextual replies and data.

The brand new app, referred to as SocialAI, is full of “thousands and thousands of AI followers”, all of that are ready in your updates, and can have the ability to reply thoughtfully to your queries and questions.

Nicely, “thoughtfully” is probably not the appropriate time period, as there’s no precise thought happening right here. SocialAI is basically ChatGPT social, with the various bot profiles constructed round completely different persona traits, and designed to answer to your updates based mostly on that programming.

So, as you possibly can see on this instance, “Debate Diva” is programmed to query your thought, “Sensible Patty” will present logical solutions, “Elena Bookworm” offers you some philosophical quandary to contemplate, and so forth.

Which is bizarre, but in addition oddly compelling, given the various responses to your updates. And who doesn’t like getting a number of replies, even whether it is from bots?

As a result of let’s face it, a number of social media interplay is probably going bots already anyway, so perhaps, then, AI social is the subsequent stage, which is able to assist to deal with the loneliness epidemic. There are already numerous examples of individuals utilizing ChatGPT as a sounding board, by posing inquiries to it as they’d one other particular person, and perhaps then, SocialAI is simply the pure, logical extension of the identical.

Heck, even Mark Zuckerberg has stated that he expects most social feeds to be full of AI-generated content material within the close to future, which incorporates engagement like this. So whereas it’s clearly much less human, and fewer “social”, at the least within the conventional context of that time period, perhaps SocialAI is just forward of the sport, and that is the way forward for all social apps.

The brand new app was created by Michael Sayman, the wunderkind who’s been constructing hit apps since he was 17.

Sayman initially rose to fame after creating a number of video games that gained traction, particularly with teenagers, which then result in Sayman becoming a member of Meta as its ’teen-in-residence’ again in 2014. Sayman performed a job within the preliminary growth of Instagram Tales, earlier than shifting on to Google to work on gaming initiatives, then Roblox for a brief stint.

In 2022, Sayman joined Twitter, however left shortly after amid the Elon Musk takeover shift.

However now Sayman is again with an app that he says he’s been considering for a while.

“I’ve spent years wanting to construct a client app that was unimaginable for a very long time. Now the tech has lastly caught as much as my imaginative and prescient.”

And once more, there’s something to it, and you may see how there might be worth for at the least some customers in getting AI responses, even whether it is basically simply you speaking with bot pals.

Might that facilitate actual relationships, and actual emotions of engagement, even whether it is simply with automated responders?

Varied educational research have concluded that generative AI can certainly substitute many elements of precise human relationships. Although researchers are additionally advising warning on this entrance, as avoiding actual human interplay can have broader impacts on psychological well being, whereas creating emotional bonds with fictitious, company managed entities may even have wider implications and impacts.

So in some methods, it looks as if an fascinating resolution to a rising concern, in making certain that extra folks really feel seen and heard, whereas additionally offering them with the psychological stimulation of ongoing engagement. However then once more, if that results in a broader retreat from the actual world, the consequences of that at scale are unknown, and will probably result in even worse outcomes in the long run.

Proper now, nonetheless, it’s one of many extra fascinating experiments in AI engagement, even when I do have bother calling it a “social” app. I imply, it’s social, however not with actual folks, and that’s probably not the identical because the foundational premise of what “social media” as an idea was constructed upon.

However perhaps, that’s simply an outdated notion of what the time period’s going to imply to the subsequent era, who’ll to develop up posing inquiries to bots, similar to they’d an actual particular person.  

In that sense, perhaps that is the long run. Whether or not you prefer it or not.