If you’ve been single for too long, look no further than this new creation. Developer Enias Cailliau created Sacha, an AI clone of his real-life girlfriend, and shared the code online for others to make their own AI girlfriends.
“I’ve been obsessing with OpenAI’s Large Language Model (LLM) and what it can do. I kept on thinking about the ability to create human-like agents that behave and act like humans do but found it hard to evaluate them,” Cailliau said. “Then I saw how a ton of AI girlfriend projects popped up with some interesting features. Most of them are closed-source. That made me want to build an open-source version of this so everyone could build their own.”
Speaking with an AI girlfriend has become extremely popular as AI tools like GPT-4 continue to advance. To make his own bot, Cailliau first created a large language model framework that was customized to reflect his girlfriend, Sacha’s, personality to a tee.
Then, he used ElevenLabs, an AI text-to-speech software, to mimic his girlfriend’s voice. To make things over the top, he also added a selfie tool into the code that was connected to the text-to-image model that could generate images of her during the conversation for a more real-life experience.
The finishing touch was connecting it all to Telegram using an app called Steamship, which is also the company Cailliau works at. While the chatbot is complete, it still needs a bit of work. “Sent the bot to my family and they are all like ‘Whut, it responds just like you.’
“It’s not finished yet, there’s still some work to truly make it my own but I like it so far. We often ask it questions just to hear what the bot would reply. Yesterday we asked it: We’re in Moraira Spain, What should we eat for lunch? And despite us being in Spain it still suggested spaghetti, my favorite dish,” Cailliau said.