An event or moment · 2022 · AI
Character.AI
User-created characters at scale, with a public character gallery and a discovery feed organised around personas.
A parasocial bond with a catalogue, which is a significant escalation. The unit is no longer a person or a product but a browsable index of persons, and the discovery mechanism is the attachment mechanism.
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