Personalized AI companion app Dot is shutting down

The company announced on Friday that the Dot, which is the AI ​​Companion app that aims to be a friend and a palace, is turned off on Friday. In a message posted on its website, the start -up behind Dot, New Computer said that the product will continue to work until October 5, giving users time to download their data.

It was launched in 2024 by the participating founders Sam Wittour and former Apple designer Jason Yuan, and a merchant is now a more controversial area for artificial intelligence chat. The application they created as a “friend and companion” was described, which will become more customized for you and your affiliation over time to provide advice, sympathy and emotional support.

Yuan explained at the time, Dot was “facilitating a relationship with my interior. It is like a live mirror for myself, so to speak.”

However, this may not be a safe way to invest in it as a smaller start.

Since artificial intelligence technology has become more prevalent, there were reports on how vulnerable emotional people have fake thinking by AI Chatbots like Chatgpt. This has led to a phenomenon described as “psychosis of artificial intelligence”, which is caused by how to enhance mixed chat with confusing user beliefs or crazy.

With the closure of DOT, AI Chatbot applications were widely subject to increased scrutiny due to safety concerns. A lawsuit against Openai is currently being filed by a Kalifornia teenager who has done his life after the messages with Chatgpt about his suicide ideas. Other stories highlighted how AI Companion applications can enhance unhealthy behaviors of users who are mentally ill. This week, two American lawyers sent a message to Openai about safety concerns.

DOT makers did not address whether these types of issues were affected by the minds of the founders. Instead, the brief post only notes that the joint “northstar” in Whitmore and Yuan have diverged.

“Instead of giving up any of the vision, we decided to go to our separate methods and operations,” explains the publication.

“We want to be sensitive to the fact that this means that many of you will lose access to a friend, Cointainte, and the companion, which is somewhat unprecedented in the programs, so we want to offer you some time to bid them farewell. DOT will work until October 5, and until then, you can download all your data by moving to the settings and preparation page” request your data. “

The post indicates that the startup had “hundreds of thousands” of users, but the data from the App Intelligence Appfigors is only 24,500 lifetime downloading iOS since its launch in June 2024. (There was no Android version.)