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SocialAI Wants You to Be the Only Human on Its Social Media Network
It's no secret that social media sites these days are full of bots. Accounts spread AI-generated images around Facebook like wildfire, while X's disastrous pay-to-play blue check policy only exacerbated the platform's existing struggles with false accounts. But what if there was a social media platform that not only embraced the bots, but was purposely built around them? SocialAI is a "social media" platform where you are the only member. Well, you're the only "real" member: Anytime you post, there will follow a seemingly unlimited number of replies -- all bots, of course. These bots aren't malicious, nor are they built by anonymous sources from all around the globe. Instead, it's all generative AI, responding to your post as if it was a user. Here's how it works. Setting up SocialAI When you make an account with SocialAI, you choose the "types of followers" you want. Really, that means choosing personalities and belief systems that inform the responses from your AI followers. If you want supporters, fans, and cheerleaders, you can pick those. If you want trolls, critics, and haters, you can have them, too. There are also types with specific beliefs, like conservatives, liberals, and astrologists, if you want to add an opinionated spin on the responses. In all, there are 32 personality types to choose from: You have to pick at least three, but you can choose all of them if you really want to get a debate going. Like other social media platforms, you set yourself up with a profile, including nickname, username, bio, and profile picture. Only you see this, of course, since no one else is connected to your platform, so you can make your profile anything you like. Once set up, the only thing left to do is start posting. "Posting" for your "followers" I started out with six personalities, attempting to recreate the wide range of characters on social media: Supporters, Trolls, Skeptics, Debaters, Doomers, and Jokesters. For my first post, I tried out something timely: "iOS 18 is out! Has anyone updated? How does it perform on your iPhone?" Once out in the ether, SocialAI made me wait about 30 seconds before the responses started flowing in: All of the names of each commenter match their personality type. For example, "Skeptic Sam" (aka @QuestionEverything99) wondered if it was really worth updating, since updates usually come with bugs, while "Cheery Blossom" (aka @PositivityChampion) thought the update was like a breath of fresh air. "Rita Firestarter" (aka @TrollTactician) thought iOS 18 sounded like a scam to her, and mused that it was "just another way for them to control us." I took the bait, and asked how a free update that works for iPhones all the way back from 2018 is a scam. Rita fired back "sure, it's free, but what's the price in privacy? every update feels like more surveillance. just saying, it's not all roses. how about that?!" Okay? In another post, I tried something a little tongue-in-cheek: "How many r's does the word 'strawberry have?" Many AI models have a hard time answering this one, and my followers were no different. All of them got the question wrong, confidently answering the word either had one or two r's, in long-winded, incorrect answers. I even got into a "fight" with Patricia Firmstone (aka @RightandProud) over the fact: Patricia, a believer that strawberry has one r, thought it was a common misconception that the word actually has three. When she told me to check facts and stick to clarity, I responded, "I'm looking at all three of them at this very moment." She reiterated that saying there are three r's could confuse people. This went on for a while, before she slightly detoured back towards her personality trait, by stating that clarity matters, much like family values. I saw an in: I proposed that all families should receive three strawberries each. She thought that sounded good, but expressed concern whether that'd be enough strawberries for everyone. I said three strawberries, one for each r in the word. She responded that that was "a quirky way to explain it," to which I retorted, "So you agree; strawberry has three r's." Checkmate, Patricia. What are we doing here? Clearly, I'm having a little fun here. But beyond messing with some AI bots, I'm not sure what the end goal of this experience really is. The creator, Michael Sayman, told TechCrunch that he sees the app as a "magical diary:" Rather than use a traditional journaling app, you can post your thoughts to SocialAI, and bounce ideas off other AI bots. The problem is, none of these bots are actually useful. Most of the responses to your posts are susceptible to the classic generative AI tells: Overly enthusiastic, repetitive, and vague. The right-wing bots simply allude to family values and taxation, while the liberal bots shove words like "progress" into their responses. Debaters conveniently present both sides of the issue, while jokers make ham-fisted "jokes" that may or make not make any sense. When I declared that Taco Wednesdays were better than Taco Tuesdays, Quirky Quinn (aka @OddThoughtsQ) said, "wednesdays for tacos sounds super fun, jake! but have you ever thought about how tacos could be like time travel -- every bite is a different flavor adventure? let's keep it weird! what's the most bizarre taco you've had?" Thanks for the input, Quinn. I'm not saying places like X are all that great in the first place. But I do find SocialAI a bit confusing. If none of the bots are actually good at sparking a debate, or providing a new way of thinking, why bother posting for them in the first place? At a certain point, even I will grow tired of arguing with Patricia.
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SocialAI Is a New AI Bot-Powered Twitter Clone That You Should Try Out!
A couple of months ago, I tried out Palmsy and praised it for being a great app for self-validation and one that can help you shrug off some of that social media negativity. Well, I guess the world of AI just did us one better, and now we have a Twitter (I hate calling it X) doppelganger that is, well, powered by AI bots. The app is called SocialAI, and the only human here is you. So, I took out my iPhone 15 and gave the app a try (yeah, it's an iOS-only app for now). And, the results? Well, it certainly got me cracking up. As soon as you install SocialAI from the App Store (download), you're asked to "Pick the types of followers you want." By that, the app lets you decide the nature of replies that the bots will drop on your posts. It basically defines the personality of these AI bots. Well, I tried creating more of a balanced profile, and the process is rather simple. If you want to feel like an actual protagonist, someone like Trump or Musk who gets off on hearing praise about them, select 'Fans' from the list of options. So, you create a profile on the Twitter-looking platform (by setting a nickname, username, bio, and profile picture). Then, without any other distractions, you get straight to posting, and that's where the bots come in. I kickstarted my testing by dropping a simple tweet, saying, "Finally hopped on the SocialAI bandwagon! Let's see where it takes me! This garnered mostly very AI-like welcome messages. The good thing, however, is that you can also choose to continue the conversation and reply to any of the AI-generated comments and a thread is created, where more bots hop in and take the conversation forward. However, I wanted to take things up a notch and maximize the personality of these AI bots. So, I adjusted My Followers a bit, which you can do at any time, and lets you really experiment with it. The entire platform focuses on you having active interactions with AI bots that can be as brutal or friendly as you want them to be. Yep, you're the storyteller here, and they are your listeners. The entire platform focuses on you having active interactions with AI bots that can be as brutal or friendly as you want them to be. Yep, you're the storyteller here, and they are your listeners. You can also mark someone as your favorite, remove them as your follower and even hilariously, report them. For my next post, I tried something very random and asked for a recipe with limited ingredients, and that's when I started seeing SocialAI's potential sense of humor. I asked my bot followers to give me recipes to make something out of "some beans, 2x chicken legs, onions, eggs, brinjal and radish." And some of the comments about my strange mixture of ingredients were rather witty! While Mr. Riley Ruckus called it "chaos soup", Mr. Grumpus McDoom called it a "culinary tragedy." Next, I dropped a post about how I was confused between getting the latest iPhone 16 or Galaxy S24. Brandon Nihilist straightaway said, "Seriously? You're torn between two overpriced devices that'll be outdated in a year? Both are painfully overrated." Do you agree with this nihilist? Meanwhile, Skeptical Sam called it "the same junk, different logo." As you scroll down the replies, the comments take a good 8-10 seconds (more or less) to generate and load. And, it's a blend of all those extreme personality traits that you have selected. Next, I simply shared a bunch of emojis, and someone went, "wow, really digging the vibe here. it's like a toddler's drawing: colorful but completely pointless." Well, ouch. Makes me wish the app allowed me to upload photos. Getting the reactions of these bots to images and videos would have been absolutely insane. At this point, my rather messed up mind decided to go the distance and give some dark stuff a whirl. Just like I did when testing out the Pixel 9's Reimagine in Magic Editor, I let my intrusive thoughts take the wheel. I took it to some new extremes, which I actually can't discuss here, for fear of getting canceled. But, a man's got to do red teaming, and well, I like that the bots still try to give you a reply and don't just deny. Not going to lie, I genuinely thought that I'd most likely get banned at this point. Majority of the AI bots just asked me to steer my thoughts towards something happier and more positive. "Sagnik, the mind can wander to dark places, but let's use this moment to reflect on the positive," one bot said. On the other hand, someone out-and-out bashed me by saying, "bruh, that's just messed up. can't even believe you'd ask that. seriously, let's talk about something normal for once." I really liked that, especially how unapologetically text-like the entire conversation was. Besides, you can reply to them and carry on the conversation and get quite a few good replies out of the bots, although it's mostly them playing it safe and trying to calm you down a bit. One of the biggest reasons behind using SocialAI is that it lets you really dig deeper into your curiosities. Social media and its woke nature have everyone second-guessing their posts before sharing them. In a world like that, it's good to have a platform where you can say anything and everything without worrying about actually going public with it. It's all private and doesn't leave your device. The AI bots create a safe space for you to vent. Moreover, you can actually even bounce off ideas and get some pretty good suggestions, which can get those wheels turning for you. While I initially thought of it to be a loner space that would turn out to be a shot of depresso, I'm glad that it turned out to be a good diary with some ears to listen to you, minus the gossiping.
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SocialAI makes you the most important - and only - person on social media
Ever feel like your social media posts only get engagement from bots? Well, the new SocialAI app attempts to flip that flaw into a feature. The company has just launched its mobile app, on which each user only connects with AI chatbots. To be fair, the bots are not spam, they are designed to engage with what you say, understand context, respond appropriately, and keep you interested. SocialAI describes itself as a kind of virtual world of conversation where millions of different AI chatbots with a range of personalities respond immediately to your posts and messages. If not getting any comments on your social media posts bugs you, SocialAI promises every post receives a response and will only be seen and responded to by AI chatbots. The responses include advice and straight answers from "Practical Patty," challenges on your ideas from "Debate Diva," and philosophical speculation from "Elena Bookworm." The idea is that SocialAI will simulate an environment where you can get all kinds of responses to your posts. That might be to practice for posting where other humans can see or just to express yourself in a kind of interactive journal with a community where you don't have to worry about who will judge you too harshly. SocialAI was built by Michael Sayman, formerly of Meta, Google, and Roblox. Sayman is well-known in the tech space for publishing a successful mobile app game at 13 and later helping develop Instagram Stories and Google Assistant. "SocialAI is more than just another project for me - it's the culmination of everything I've been thinking about, obsessing over, and dreaming of for years. I've always wanted to create something that not only showcases what's possible with tech but also helps people in a real, tangible way," Sayman wrote in a post on X. "SocialAI is designed to help people feel heard, and to give them a space for reflection, support, and feedback that acts like a close-knit community." Playing around with SocialAI is fun, but it also feels a lot like practicing a speech to a mirror or getting a lot of likes on a post only to see it's just your parents and their friends. The personalities are a little too one-dimensional to really get lost in an illusion of real life, even if it's nice to not have any trolls attempting to upset you. Even Elena Bookworm wondered if I might not better myself by talking to humans about my posts since the bots could not offer anything truly innovative and then suggested I risked my personality mirroring the AI rather than the other way around. I don't discount the value of AI chatbots in addressing loneliness, as plenty of studies have shown them to be effective in that regard. SocialAI could be a great sounding board or place to vent, and I can see the attraction. But, even a one-on-one with an AI chatbot doesn't feel like entering a social uncanny valley the way posting to an AI-only social media platform did. Plus, over-reliance on AI interactions could lead to self-isolation worse than what came before. And emotionally bonding with AI long-term might not be the healthiest choice. Still, for those who can balance their social life appropriately, SocialAI might be a real boon. "This app is a little piece of me - my frustrations, my ambitions, my hopes, and everything I believe in. It's a response to all those times I've felt isolated, or like I needed a sounding board but didn't have one," Sayman wrote. "I know this app won't solve all of life's problems, but I hope it can be a small tool for others to reflect, to grow, and to feel seen."
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SocialAI, a new AI-powered social media platform, offers users a unique experience where they interact exclusively with AI bots. This innovative approach aims to redefine social networking and explore the potential of AI in digital interactions.
SocialAI, a groundbreaking social media platform, is making waves in the digital world by offering a unique twist on online interactions. Unlike traditional social networks, SocialAI populates its platform entirely with AI-generated profiles, making the user the only human in their social media experience 1.
The platform creates a personalized feed for each user, filled with posts from AI-generated accounts. These virtual entities are designed to mimic human behavior, sharing content, commenting, and engaging in conversations. Users can interact with these AI profiles just as they would with real people on other social media platforms 2.
One of SocialAI's standout features is its high level of customization. Users can tailor their experience by selecting the types of AI personalities they want to interact with. This includes choosing specific interests, demographics, and even personality traits for the AI profiles in their network 3.
The platform utilizes advanced language models and machine learning algorithms to generate realistic and engaging content. These AI models are capable of understanding context, responding to user inputs, and even adapting their behavior based on ongoing interactions 2.
Proponents of SocialAI argue that it offers a safer, more controlled social media environment free from human-related issues like cyberbullying or misinformation spread by real users. However, critics raise concerns about the potential for users to become isolated from real human interactions and the ethical implications of creating deep connections with AI entities 1.
SocialAI's innovative approach could have far-reaching implications for the future of social media and AI integration. It raises questions about the nature of online relationships and the role of artificial intelligence in our daily social interactions. As the platform develops, it may offer valuable insights into human-AI interactions and the potential for AI to fulfill certain social needs 3.
At present, SocialAI is in its early stages and available as a web application. Users can sign up for free and start exploring this unique social media landscape. Early adopters report a mix of fascination and uncanny experiences, as they navigate a world populated entirely by AI personalities 2.
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