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Smith: Creator startups treating creators as customers will ultimately underperform
“I think the companies that have not done very well is those that look at creators as a customer base.”
Smith: Influencers drive 60 percent of global buying decisions today
“Influencers influence about 60% of the buying decisions in the world these days.”
Smith: Fans want relationships with curated public personas, not private identities
“What we figured out quickly was that The relationship that we as fans want with a celebrity or with a creator is actually really with the public persona that we see of this particular creator, creator. And the creators confirmed that for us as well. They said,…”
Smith: Base ChatGPT speaks like a socially unaware first-year analyst
“ChatGPT is very much like you know, talking to a socially unaware First year analyst who just kind of answers questions and is done. And it's not a very entertaining and interesting dialogue.”
Smith: 50 million of the 200 million global creators work full-time
“There's two hundred million creators worldwide, there's fifty million that are full-time creators.”
Smith: Synchronous audio and video for celebrity AI clones is coming soon
“Today it is Techspace Chat. But in the very near future, it'll be full video with full audio and synchronous and that fundamentally changes the psychological kind of interaction that starts happening there because you know you're interacting with a virtual bei…”
Smith: ChatGPT's lack of long-term memory prevents genuine parasocial relationships
“That is, it is impossible to build a relationship on top of that, and that is a little bit like what it is to chat, talk with ChatGPT, at least today, and a lot of the other AIs. They just don't have good long-term memory built in”
Smith: AI clones struggle because most creators lack conversational training data
“In most cases with training data is it doesn't have access to a lot of conversational data. That is a little bit different with interviewers that, that have a lot of like podcasts and YouTube. In that case, there's a lot of training data where there's interact…”
Smith: MeForYou silos user memory strictly within individual AI clone conversations
“As it stands now, that is a siloed a walled garden within that particular conversation that you've had with that particular AI. So what you tell them is what is, is what they know about you.”
Smith: AI models are better at catching rule violations than obeying constraints
“One of the things that's interesting about AI is that it is better as a tattletale than it is at obeying, and so you can say, here's the rules, only do this, and then it spits back something that doesn't obey the rules, and you say, did that obey the rules, an…”