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Roman Mazurenko is dead again. First resurrected person, Roman lived as a chatbot (2016-2024) created based on his conversations with his fiancé. You might even be able download him as an app.
But not any more. His fiancé married again and her startup http://Replika.ai pivoted from resurrection help to AI-girlfriends and psychological consulting.
It looks like they quietly removed Roman Mazurenko app from public access. It is especially pity that his digital twin lived less than his biological original, who died at 32. Especially now when we have much more powerful instruments for creating semi-uploads based on LLMs with large prompt window.
Yes, they can do now a much better version - and hope they will do it internally. But deleting the public version is bad precedent and better to make all personal sideloads opensourced
2Raemon
Uh I do think it's not obviously good (and, in fact, I'd lean bad) to be opensourced for this sort of thing.