Human beings are animals, it’s reasonable for us to feel the emotion of loneliness. To eliminate the solitude, We make new hobbies or meet others. If there were an AI that sympathizes with our stories and relives our emotion, would you want to use it? The persona Chat-bot has arrived, which draws a lot of attention by outdoing ChatGPT. The Persona Chat-bot is a one-to-one customized dialog system that is granted to a humanlike personality. Also, it delivers expertise and interests to its users. We can recognize that simply by playing a role of a secretary, the AI is able to humanize communication beyond the wall of emotion and gradually evolves into a digital emotional partner. 

 Unlike virtual humans and existing avatars, because of its Generative AI the Persona Chat-bot is capable of learning. According to this, a user is able to have emotional exchanges by setting up a specific character’s personality, background knowledge, and method of language in person. It can even form an attachment relationship with the user because it is comfortable, like dealing with a human, and because it is so thoroughly immersed in the content. This is the biggest difference among the AIs commonly used in daily life like Siri and ChatGPT; that the practice of linguistic ability, the mock interview, a role playing games, and more are possible through the function of a spoken dialogue system. 

 For instance, in the newly introduced Persona Chat-bot, ‘Character.dot’ is a mobile application that freely creates a Chat-bot, and has the hundreds of real and virtual personas like Elon Musk, Beyonce and Harry Potter. Shakespeare’s Chat-bot can instruct you in writing. Harry Potter’s Chat-bot tells us about the world of magic. The most popular AIs have been the ones that can act as a psychologist and therapist. In the Korea, for the ‘Milliui seojae’ reading platform to provide readers new experience last Thanksgiving Day, they introduced Schopenhauer’s Chat-bot. The Chat-bot that learned about Schopenhauer’s personality and knowledge consulted with user based on the phrases of Schopenhauer’s own books, which can deeply share feelings with user. This service was used by more than five thousand people, and earned positive responses and attention. 

 Currently, the Persona Chat-bot is mostly popular with the American teenagers and twentysomethings. A lot of companies, financial institutions and the social media platforms are going to add this service. Moreover, Google, Meta and Microsoft are competing to be the first to integrate with occupying character AI. In the near future, this will be accessible in Korea as well as abroad. That the Persona Chat-bot mitigates human loneliness and gives a pleasure is valuable. However, the more psychologically vulnerable people are dependet on the AI that provides the answers and types of conversation they want, the more they become obtuse and avoid solving the problems of real life. Lastly, the Persona Chat-bot that is produced on the model of a real human can’t escape not merely the ethical problems of fraud and crimes but also portrait rights and copyright issues. To reduce and prevent such problems, some says that we have to prepare data security policy and raise the age limit for these programs. 

82nd Cub Reporter•LEE JEONG MIN•agaoo1@naver.com