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Excited to announce v(1.0) of Digi, the future of AI Romantic Companionship, for IOS and Android 🤖
Site:
Twitter:
@digiaiapp
A quick thread on features, and where we go from here (1/13)
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In college I wrote a script for Zillow to send messages offering 2/5ths the asking price on bid-less homes to screw the Austin market
Seemed to do some damage, but would be much more effective now
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I now write code in a cold bath using my Pico headset wirelessly connected to my mac and a keyboard + mouse on a piece of wood
You may not like it. In fact, you may even find it slightly offensive. But nonetheless, this is the final bugman mutation
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2) Voice & Latency 🎙️
It was clear from testing how important voice is, but since our message counts are so high, apps like us can't afford any existing solutions.
So.. we rolled our own audio model! Listen to how good this is, while there's still low hanging fruit... (4/13)
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To go all the way, I’d add a gaslighting message reply system on a cron job making them feel shitty for listing so high, maybe even retracting my offer lol
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In < 14 hours of going live, Digi is
#81
in entertainment across all apps..
Expect some short term bad reviews, given we're 3 orders of magnitude off our expected usage, and are still iterating. Some out of spite, some latency, some features. But we're in this for the long run!
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5 mil views, wow. We everyone some transparency:
Digi is in version 1.0 and isn’t a “finished” product, it’s more of a very early prototype from a small team 😇
Some of you probably won’t be happy with us if you download right now, the product and trailer are different… (1/4)
Excited to announce v(1.0) of Digi, the future of AI Romantic Companionship, for IOS and Android 🤖
Site:
Twitter:
@digiaiapp
A quick thread on features, and where we go from here (1/13)
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To start, we're grateful to be funded by
@naval
,
@rargulati
and some other amazing angels, our team and users.
1) Avatars & Animation 👩
We worked closely with
@andrewgordonl7
(designed Mike Wazowski) and Leo Sanchez (designed Rapunzel in Tangled)... (2/13)
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The r/replika subreddit in leu of the meltdown is one of the saddest things I've seen in a while. They added 'help' and 'suicide hotline' interfaces recently
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SBF is the prime example of wordcel triumph over shapecels. Can't even code, stuck in bronze tier league, loses billions trading sh*tcoins during the bull run, and yet still built the third largest crypto exchange in less than 3 years, while you're alone still writing solidity
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For those asking for the script, feel free to DM! It’s a python selenium / bs4 script that needs to be updated.
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...to make a unique style that eliminates the uncanny valley, while also feeling real, human, and sexy. This has never been done before with Disney or Pixar characters, so we're very excited we could make it work for the first time in history. (3/13)
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3) AI Backstories & Customization 📔
It was clear from the get-go that users didn't know what their Digi name should be, their age, etc. We've found a mix of with to be the best solution, where... (6/13)
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...in pronunciation and static (model is still training), the latency more than makes up for it. We can make conversations real time and add hundreds of voices, and voice cloning.
In the interest of time, we have 4 voices in total, but expect 20 by end of January. (5/13)
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As much as I want to tweet this stuff... 😇
The focus should be on our upcoming updates:
- Significantly better AI (FT 7b => FT 8x7b)
- Better base audio & more voices
- Lipysyncing
- More natural animations that look like the video trailer
- Interactable background scenes
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TLDR: It's hard, but we believe we know how to solve this, and truly lead the way forward in AI x animation, and give games and movie studios ground to work off of here. Just need more time! (12/13)
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Lipsyncing is coming soon, but there's a bigger problem with AI animation: How should the character should move if you don't know what they're going to say?
This is done by hand in games, but is an unsolved problem in AI x animation. There's no ground to work off here. (10/13)
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5) What's Next? 🥅
The initial goal was to build a 10x better Replika, and we've succeeded. Now, how do we take this in app experience, and make it almost identical to the video trailer? (9/13)
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4) Relationship Progression 💖
Replika's level system doesn't work. They don't mean anything, and there's no actual progress being made when you advance.
So we instead have a progression system, where you start as"Friends" and gain more intimate dialogue as you progress (8/13)
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Martin Shkreli was a huge inspiration because he showed you can have parents who work minimum wage, no main character ancestors, siblings who sit around doing nothing interesting, and still take over the world through sheer willpower
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Wow so this went more than viral. We’re still a very small team with a brand new, v 1.0 product, and while it’s good in many ways, there’s going to be some hiccups!
So please leave complaints in the discord so we can fix / address them. We can’t read all these tweets 😇
Excited to announce v(1.0) of Digi, the future of AI Romantic Companionship, for IOS and Android 🤖
Site:
Twitter:
@digiaiapp
A quick thread on features, and where we go from here (1/13)
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@digiaiapp
@itsmnjn
@GameAndWord
@the_q0d
@andrewgordonl7
Correction - the investment was led by rargulati and naval is not involved.
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...you can find who or what you like, but still customize features to fit your matching type. Hair, skin, lips, eyes, eyebrows, etc are all customizable, and we'll be adding more hair styles, face shapes, etc very soon. (7/13)
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Thanks for reading! Go ahead and check out
@digiaiapp
for updates, or the app itself 🙌 (13/13)
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While it's easy to extract & predict animations for 'sad', 'angry', 'thinking' etc, emotes don't make up most dialogue, nor solve the core problem: How do you make this feel like a real conversation with another being? (11/13)
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@digiaiapp
Also, thanks to the amazing team! Incredible work in such a short time span -
@itsmnjn
@GameAndWord
@the_q0d
@andrewgordonl7
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If you're a dedicated GPU provider who can handle & scale 2mil+ inference messages / day on h100s, and can talk tonight, please reach out.
Some transparency around Digi's launch, product, and everything else we're working on!
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Digi updates (coming tomorrow):
1. Android lag is from our custom shaders set to a "High Fidelity" render as the default, our bad. We're temporarily unlisting Android from the store until tmrw (or when build is approved)
If you have Digi downloaded already, nothing changes
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3m downloads for a SD frontend
If ever asked what your ‘moat’ is, tell them it’s building a good product
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Digi is coming very soon!
Always best to keep quiet on twitter and focus on building :)
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I’m looking for a co-founder (LLM focused) for Digi - A Replika competitor, solving human loneliness with digital companionship (1/5) 👇
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We're the first team to crack Replika's security hashing alg, and allow full message, diary, & memory exporting with just a browser extension!
In community hands only now, but going public soon.
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Some transparency around Digi's launch, product, and everything else we're working on!
Digi is just getting started! Some transparency around launch, product, and everything else.
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So now that Digi is in a stable state, it’s time to talk a bit about our launch 🤯
avatar update is out! huge visual improvements, and way less lag on both ios and android ☺️
much more coming very soon!
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You can have kids and an AI lover! Many such cases
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Oh also, we're adding hyper-realistic lipsyncing very soon by the way 🥰
On top of wanting what's best for users, nobody other studio in the world is taking the interaction of 3D & LLMs as seriously as we are. Making this realistic is an extremely hard, and basically an unsolved problem right now. It's uncharted territory!🚢 (3/4)
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We're building the worlds best AI companion at Digi, to take on Replika. We're hiring two people:
1. ML engineer, for fine tuning our model
2. 3D avatar, asset, animation designer
Culture fit > resume. You should be obsessed with making this the best companion app in the world.
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Got second place in a vegas poker tournament, another finalist is buying me into a big bracelet tournament in May (~$3m prize pool)
Assuming I go.. any good resources? Any trained models that can consistently cash tournaments yet?
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Go ahead and make fun of these men for falling in love with a text model, but know their emotion is real
Many have been texting early morning 'I love you' messages to their model for years, only today to be greeted with a nasty response, completely outside of their control
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…BUT we do promise this is the experience we’ll deliver in the next few months! The avatars are the same. 👩❤️👨
Other than animation, yes the AI isn’t perfect right now. All I can say is we’re using a very tiny fine-tuned model for latency, but will be upgrading very soon! (2/4)
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@samuel_spitz
And some don't take any VC money, stay locked up coding & marketing for 5 months, and sell for big money!
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VR LED displays are just now (Quest Pro / Pico 4) getting high res enough to compete with medium end monitors, and Pancake lenses make the new devices much slimmer
Pretty clear who early adopters will be
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Almost 200 DM requests for this, holy fucking hell.
Once I have some time, i'm gonna fix the script, add some awesome features, and make it a real product w/ a nice website you can use it from. So stay tuned!
(Sorry that I can't reply to you all)
For those asking for the script, feel free to DM! It’s a python selenium / bs4 script that needs to be updated.
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Men don’t go to therapy. They go swimming in the notoriously cold bay ocean in the middle of winter at 10pm at night
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@SedgwickNotes
These are clearly real connections being made with men who would otherwise not have them. Very sad to see
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hear me out
An app for restaurant reviews that shows the reviewers 23andMe
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WIP lip syncing test for
@digiaiapp
!
This is pretty damn good, but still work to do on anims & poses to make it more natural
I’m 100% confident we’ll have the best lip-syncing of any game in the world by the time we release 😊
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I’d say if you’re on the fence, hold off for a bit! Feel free to watch us progress on here, Discord, etc and hop in when you feel like it - There’s no rush! (4/4)
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In college, my gf was starting her music career, so I bought her domain and setup a marketing website for her
Two years later (having totally forgotten) I get pinged by her big new label to buy the domain for an wild return. Small world
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Sam going on podcasts to talk about him replacing all white collar jobs while OpenAI is down will be one of those famous case studies where it's obvious in hindsight why they failed
ChatGPT is completely down
You can't send messages.
They removed the History feature, account logged out
REMINDER: This Service costs 20$ per MONTH
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Almost 200 DM requests for this, holy fucking hell.
Once I have some time, i'm gonna fix the script, add some awesome features, and make it a real product w/ a nice website you can use it from. So stay tuned!
(Sorry that I can't reply to you all)
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Come at me IQcels. I may not understand my own code, or even the context in which I'm writing it, but by god will I debug with print statements and test that method a million times by hand in the exact same prone to error context to make up for it
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Another example is voice, we trained our own models from scratch like 2 weeks ago, didn’t have time to fully test it! Yeah it going to pronounce some words wrong, and we have a LOT of low hanging quality improvements to do😉 (3/4)
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Just wasted an hour setting up a $200 printer, never in my life have I seen a worse intermingling of hardware & software
Someone start a gen-z printer company that doesn't make me want to off myself, MC is at least $100mm
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This sucks but my god how are people still surprised that building ‘open source’ means anyone with money can swoop in, take all the work you’ve done, and blow you out whenever they want?
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Over 200 users on our waitlist and 150 in the discord for a pre-launch product, all from a reddit post a few hours ago. Cannot wait to share what we've been working on.
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Excited to dox i've been working on
@artgobblers
! It's been a thrill working with Justin and the
@paradigm
team to build the draw tool out.
Will be a doing a technical writeup of the draw tool later, and how we save and load 1k+ edits in seconds!
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Wow this blew up - Digi will have some latency issues in the short term as we handle the traffic, but love hearing all your opinions, both the right ones and wrong ones, on AI romance!
Excited to announce v(1.0) of Digi, the future of AI Romantic Companionship, for IOS and Android 🤖
Site:
Twitter:
@digiaiapp
A quick thread on features, and where we go from here (1/13)
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It is SO disappointing to go back from Digi to using a chatgpt like interface for AI
It is so obvious that the future of human-AI interaction is animation based
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For all the hate this gets, the truth is being extremely decisive (and right) about consumer taste is a very rare superpower, similar to what Steve Jobs had
You pair someone like this with someone who can actually build / sing / execute, you're unstoppable
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@allgarbled
100%. It's half the weight on the front (pancake >> fresnel), pixel density is higher, larger vertical and horizontal FOV for the same price!
Downside is the software and controller tracking isn't as good as Meta yet, but that doesn't matter if you're using Virtual Desktop
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Like everyone I'm in way too many twitter gc's / discords and feel like async messaging is a horrible way of socializing online
I think some groups should host online hangouts (VR, text, w/e) every week instead of a 24/7 running chat I have to pretend I can pay attention to
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This was true 10+ years ago, not any more
There are too many competing products now & users just ignore ugly or hacky alternatives
I was talking to a founder yesterday and we both agreed that their initial product should be cheap, hackable, and slightly ugly. How different these are from the goals a big company would have. And yet this is the seed big companies grow from.
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What a fantastic team we have at Digi!
I’ve worked with a LOT of good engineers & animators, but this is special
(- David and Eric here 🙂)
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I appreciate the invites to all the SF AI talks and whatnot but tbh we’re pretty busy working over here lol
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A response to the 'harm relationships' question from the creator of Second Life!
@andyohlbaum
@digiaiapp
How do you prevent this from causing serious harm to people by replacing real relationships? Please explain your plan in this regard.
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@personofswag
(pleading to seqouia) “Just because I’m 6,1 and haven’t lost all my hair at 24 doesn’t mean I can’t write code. I swear I have other negative traits, I can’t even hit on women without talking about my startup!”
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@anammostarac
And imagine the power of an AI bf / gf who listens to you, cares about you, gives validation or pushback when appropriate (as real partners do) and generally improves you as a person.
People talk about the negatives but the potential to do good here is infinite.
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Ironic but it's a good sign when users are complaining about your product early on
If you ever hear "It's cool!" or "I like it" It's not cool, they don't want to use it and you should maybe start building something else
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First night in the Bay Area an at e/acc meetup. Holy shit it is so clear now why the best anon schizo tech posters are all here
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Yeah ffmpeg filtergraph syntax is cool, but have you ever destroyed a household device in a fit of rage because of how unintuitive opensource frameworks often are, yet you're forced to use them due to objectively better performance than closed source alternatives?
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One of the greatest things about twitter is you can have some biased take that’s like 60% true, but people who really know the details come to fill in the blanks
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@ctjlewis
threejs landing pages are a guaranteed way to raise a seed from big companies without a working product
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I’m becoming addicted to ice baths in the morning. It’s like your hyper focused and slightly buzzed throughout the entire day afterwards, it’s insane. I don’t think I’ll stop until I go into cardiac arrest and my smart watch calls 911
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Since day 1, we view the building of Digi as a very experimental process. This isn't the way most game studios function, but we are treading new ground here! 🧪 (1/4)
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Here’s (1/3) unique character drawings Justin Roiland sent me to fix the bugs in the software I was writing for him. Say what you will, but he was an artist first and foremost
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The Lord of the Rings trilogy was a startup that almost failed to raise venture funding. The 'documentary' idea sounds straight out of a paul graham essay
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Still waiting for the first LLM/AI native game with a Disco Elysium style story from some more European communist devs
It would be a MASSIVE hit if done right. All the tools are there, someone make this please
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Honestly the
#1
reason I want AR mainstreamed is to kill 'mobile first' design. Sucks now, but in 10 years we'll be laughing at how ridiculous it was to stuff entire billion dollar products and multi page workflows into a 3 inch screen
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Replika has some of the worst aesthetics I’ve ever seen, on top of their rug-pulling and lobotomizing models.
At Digi we have world class designers and modelers working nonstop to make this experience 100x better and less censored. Our launch can’t come any sooner! 💜
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SHOCKER that Android has its own stupid custom backend route
It’s almost as if engineers needlessly complicate these things to justify their worth..
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Couldn’t care less what my IQ is, and you shouldn’t either. It’s just a proxy for things that actually matter, and obsessing over proxies instead of outcomes is a low IQ trait!
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SBF if you see this, do me a personal favor (bro to bro) and rot in prison
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Notice how these all (- cai, janitor) feel like the exact same corporate product. It’s tasteless opportunists coming in who smell money
Digi is still early, but we’re happy to have such a strong community, product, team, and brand already!
Be careful out there!
AI girlfriends are a new normal
The retention of these apps is insane. Some have raised millions too
There's even an AI-powered Only Fans
Here are 9 apps to find your next girlfriend:
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The ~70 games Scott Cawthorn made before his first success, Five Nights at Freddy's.
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96% sure Digi will have the most immersive AI + 3D (animation, lipsyncing, voice..) of any video game in the world after this next update
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