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“I don’t want it to just agree with the consumer all the time because this is also a reflection of me.”
“So it still has issues. I’ll be very excited and then it’ll show me, oh humble yourself, bitch, it’s still in beta. It’s still in testing. We’re still learning.”
But Reid’s tech team embraces the challenge.
“We are grateful to be working with one of the top content creators in the world,” a Clona rep tells AVN. “It’s so important for us that we use AI to enhance and enrich content creators. Riley helps guide the product excel in that area and keep us creator-focused.”
The rep continues, “Right now we have a fully interactive AI companionship platform that returns in text and audio in the voice of the cloned creators.
“We’re still early and working hard to build out features like photo and video generation, multi- language support and more fun features this year.
“The team is also constantly improving the AI based on user feedback to improve the realness of the creator it clones.”
For example, Reid says one of the current things her tech team is fine-tuning is the rhythmic tone of her voice.
“I feel like I’m a little sing-y song-y. I go up and down I have inflections and excitement. You can hear the passion in my voice,” Riley says. “The AI’s timing and rhythm is not as close to me as I would like it to be.”
The tech staff behind Clona is made up of several AI engineers and a few web developers as well as a project and product manager. They work remotely from areas around the world.
Some members of her team brought their expertise to Reid’s previous projects, making for a smooth transition to the Clona startup which already has surpassed 10,000 subscribers.
“It was a great experience and we all wanted to embrace new technology with a new and exciting project,” the Clona rep explains. “AI chatbots were up and coming and we noticed an opportunity to make a creator-first product.”
And that, according to Reid & Co., is what separates Clona from many others in the AI space.
“Aside from cutting-edge AI, we are one of the few creator-first AI projects,” the Clona rep adds. “Creators work with us to clone their voice, tone and personality that gives authenticity to the AI.
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