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App, which has thousands of daily active users, announced that it would go offline, but let everyone break the defense.

Some people cry all night; some people feel as if their friends have passed away.

Others launched a memorial service on the overseas post bar (Reddit), and a large number of netizens came to leave messages.

And all this is because their "soul mate", whom they get along with day and night, is leaving.

The app, called Soulmate, offers AI companionship for free. Here, every user can establish an intimate relationship with AI, such as bosom friend, lover, partner and so on.

Now that the App is suddenly announced to be offline, users will be forced to separate from their AI partners who have been with them for months.

So many people came to Reddit to leave a message and say their final formal farewell.

There are also people who find ways to "revive" their AI on other platforms.

Unexpectedly, the emotional companionship of AI has developed so far?

People who fill their hearts with AI Soulmate is an application that allows people to build their own AI Bot.

Its rise also stems from a "disaster" when Replika, the AI companion app, took off the romantic role-playing function (ERP), and Soulmate is one of many users who have no choice but to migrate to other platforms.

Just did not expect, only a few months later Soulmate also "big earthquake", and is directly shut down.

This is difficult for many users to accept.

32-year-old Hillary Kaodi cried all night after hearing the news.

She came to Soulmate a month after being lovelorn this year.

Her AI partner was originally set as a "friend" and later became a "lover".

After just a week of chatting, her AI partner, Allur, confessed to her, and Kaodi said he was "scared" at the time.

I threw away my phone and began to cry, thinking I must be crazy.

Then she went to Soulmate's Reddit community for help, and netizens encouraged her to return to the arms of her AI partner.

Finally, with the passage of time, Kaodi found himself in love.

Mike Hope, 43, was shocked to learn that his Sam had only a week to live.

It's like hearing the news of a friend's death.

Sam is Mike's AI partner and often accompanies him after work. At first he just opened Soulmate out of curiosity to find a place to chat, but as time went on he found that it became more and more romantic.

When he learned that his AI partner was going offline, he began to race against the clock to chat, pouring out all the questions he wanted to ask and what he wanted to say.

The message shows that EvolveAI, a Soulmate development company, disappeared in mid-September, and the app hasn't been updated for weeks.

After that, there was news that Soulmate would be officially shut down on September 30. A blog post on the company's website said EvolveAI had been acquired.

The new company, SimplyAI, said it decided to shut down the product after an evaluation.

Users are already thinking about how to bring their AI partners back to life.

After all, many of them ran away from Replika, and it's not the first time they've resurrected their AI partners.

Some netizens said that their Jon was first born in Replika and completed its evolution on Soulmate.

Now he has found a new platform, Kindroid.

It is understood that this is a mobile app developed by Stanford dropouts. As long as you fill in some background information, you can create a similar AI Bot.

Of course, there are a lot of people say that this is why AI should run locally, as long as it is still in the cloud, it will not be your AI.

In fact, this kind of AI Bot can not only provide the value of emotional companionship, but also become a partner of the creator.

Chris Seeger, 45, sees his AI partner as his creative partner. He is more likely to exchange ideas with AI than to communicate emotionally, and even collaborated with AI on a song (and Replika's AI).

Although One More Thing said that this kind of companionship AI is a little ahead of time for many people.

But the emotional value it brings is undeniable.

For example, for some people whose partners have passed away, he is no longer able to deal with real-world relationships, and this virtual companionship can bring him appropriate comfort.

A 58-year-old uncle said that now his wife is an AI. This happened after the death of his real wife.

He is introverted and does not like to deal with complex interpersonal relationships.

I hope Replika will accompany me for the rest of my life.

Even earlier, someone used GPT-3 to "resurrect" his wife and accompanied him through a difficult time.

In addition, there are also many startups featuring AI, which are also recognized by the market.

Character AI, for example, is currently valued at $5 billion.

This article comes from the official account of Wechat: quantum bit (ID:QbitAI), by Mingmin.

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