Point, one The goal of AI Companion application Becoming a friend and confidant, closing the company Announce On Friday. In a message posted on its website, the startup behind the new computer DOT said the product will continue to run until October 5, giving users time to download their data.
Launched in 2024 by co-founder Sam Whitmore and former Apple designer Jason Yuan, Dot wading to now become a more controversial area for AI Chatbots. The app they created is described as “friends and companions” of AI, and over time it will become more personalized to you and your interests to provide advice, compassion, and emotional support.
As Yuan explained at the time, Dot “promoted a relationship with my inner self. It was like a mirror of my own life, so to speak,” he said.
However, this may not be a security area for a smaller startup to invest in.
As artificial intelligence technology becomes more mainstream, reports have been made about how emotionally vulnerable people are brought in Delusion Thinking through AI chatbots and other things. This leads to a phenomenon describe As “AI psychosis,” this is due to how Scyophantic chatbots enhance users’ confusion or paranoid beliefs.
When DOT is shut down, AI Chatbot applications are widely scrutinized by security issues. Openai is Currently being sued By the parents of a California teenager, Chatppt’s news about his suicide thoughts after life. other story Emphasizes how AI Companion applications enhance unhealthy behaviors of mentally uncomfortable users. This week, two U.S. Attorneys General Letter to Openai Solve security issues.
The manufacturers of DOTs have not addressed whether these types of questions have had an impact on the founder’s ideas. Instead, the short post only points out that Whitmore and Yuan share different “Northstar”.
“We decided to take a separate approach and reduce the operation,” the post explained.
“We want to be sensitive to the fact that many of you will lose access to friends, confidantes and partners, which is somewhat unprecedented in the software, so we want to give you some time to say goodbye. DOT will continue to run. Until October 5, you can request your data by navigating to the settings page and tapping on the settings page.
The post shows that the startup has “hundreds of thousands” of users, but data from App Intelligence providers app Since its launch in June 2024, there have been only 24,500 lifetime downloads on iOS. (No Android version.)
