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Good morning, welcome to AI Joe, the newsletter that goes down smoother than a seal on a waterslide. Here’s what’s on today’s agenda 👇️ 

• AI with 10,000 boyfriends 👩 

• Spotify gives AI music the boot 👢 

• AI Unicorns 🦄 

• Google I/O 🎧️ 

• Create an AI voice 🗣️ 

This influencer wants to date you… kinda 💁‍♀️ 

Caryn Marjorie has created an AI version of herself. For just $1/minute, you can take the 23-year-old influencer on a date.

CarynAI is a voice-based chatbot, meant to simulate conversation with Caryn Marjorie. In the first week after launch, CarynAI made $72,000. Caryn believes CarynAI can reach 20,000 monthly active users and $5,000,000 of monthly revenue.

Based on this tweet from Caryn yesterday, we’ll see 20,000 users before the next installment of AI Joe.

"Whether you need somebody to be comforting or loving, or you just want to rant about something that happened at school or at work, CarynAI will always be there for you," Caryn said in a somewhat dystopian interview.

Here’s a live look at Caryn with her 20,000 boyfriends:

Is this the ultimate cure for loneliness or the beginning of a Black Mirror episode? Only time will tell.

Read the full story here

It’s Spotify not SpotifAI 🎵 

So you’re telling me that Kanye didn’t actually cover “You Belong With Me” by Taylor Swift?

Spotify removed tens of thousands of songs uploaded from AI start-up Boomy. It might not be for the reason you thought though. Spotify wasn’t removing the fake vocals of real artists. Instead, they removed songs that were being artificially streamed.

So, what’s artificial streaming?

Artifical streaming is a scheme meant to generate royalties for the uploader of the song. When a song receives enough streams, Spotify pays a royalty to the artist for their content. Fraudsters deploy online AI bots to pose as human listeners and stream their songs. This inflates the audience size and increases royalties.

A diabolical scheme.

Check out the full story here

You get a billion dollars, you get a billion dollars!

In 2023, generative AI (AIs that can create content, think ChatGPT) start-ups are bucking the trend 🏇.

While other technology companies struggle, generative AI start-ups are achieving unprecedented growth and success. Last week, Cohere and Runway joined 7 peers as unicorns (companies worth more than $1B) in the AI industry.

The average time it’s taken these companies to become unicorns is nearly 50% shorter than other unicorns. The average unicorn company takes 7 years to build while the average generative AI unicorn takes just 3.6 years.

Investors want to get in on these firms early. As more money continues to pour in, expect innovation to pour out. We’re in for an exciting few years.

Read the full story here

Google + AI = ❤️ 🎧️ 

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How you can use AI this week

Create your own AI voice

Go to ElevenLabs and sign up for their free plan or (their starter plan if you want to clone your own voice!).

Once you’ve created your account, you’ll need to click “VoiceLab”.

From this page, you can choose to create a voice using “voice design” (free) or clone a voice (paid).

Click “Add voice” and then make your selection. Here’s what it looks like if you opt to generate a voice:

To test the voice click “generate.” When you’re happy with the voice you’ve built, click “Use voice.”

Finally, click Use 1 more time

Now you’re free to have your AI say whatever you like. What did yours say? Give it a try and send me the recording.