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Eric Hal Schwartz

I made an AI clone of myself based on my Google and Reddit history — and it understood me better than I expected

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A few years ago, I would have been deeply skeptical that a half-hour conversation with an AI could produce anything resembling even a partial facsimile of my personality. So, when I came across the idea on Reddit, my first reaction was curiosity mixed with doubt. The original poster claimed they had built an AI that understood them by feeding it years of personal data, and I wasn't convinced that combining a Reddit profile, Google data, and a handful of interview questions would create anything more than a surface-level reflection of my interests.

I still wanted to see what would happen.

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