Generative AI — is there something it received’t do? Well, honestly, more often than not you’re not going to have the ability to persuade it to share its innermost fantasies with you. Try it with ChatGPT, for instance, and the pc simply says “no”:
Yeah, that’s a “no” from me, dawg. Image Credits: ChatGPT screenshot.
That type of puritan silliness is the type of factor that Swedish startup Pirr simply wouldn’t stand for. The firm has launched an app skilled on an unlimited library of smut, and is keen that will help you fantasize alongside an AI. You write the primary paragraph, and the AI takes it from there. After a few paragraphs, you both select what occurs subsequent, choose-your-own-adventure fashion or you possibly can write the following a part of the story your self, earlier than letting the AI step again in. It’s additionally potential to collaborate on tales with the broader neighborhood.
It appears to have caught on; the corporate claims it has greater than 150,000 customers, spending on common 22 minutes in a single session with the horny romance novella co-writer.
Pirr, which suggests a “state of excitement” in Swedish, permits customers to generate their very own narratives with the assistance of AI. The startup’s mission is to interrupt the stigma across the style, which regardless of being among the many largest and most profitable in literature, typically stays unstated about.
I spoke with the corporate’s co-founders, CEO Anna Wallander and COO Beatrice Bushati, to be taught extra about what the corporate is constructing, the way it’s constructing it and why all of us want a bit extra pirr in our lives.
“We are female-founded, we have a female perspective, but the app is for everyone,” says Wallander. “We want to create a playground for fantasies. We want people to have fun and to fantasize because we also believe in what that could do with people.”
Pirr’s Anna Wallander (CEO) and Beatrice Bushati (COO). Image Credits: Pirr.
The firm raised a $430,000 angel spherical, which it says included participation from angel buyers throughout Silicon Valley, New York and London, and might be used to transition Pirr from an MVP to a full-fledged product. The firm additionally plans to begin monetization exams towards the top of the 12 months, with a possible leaning towards a subscription-based mannequin.
“We have a big interest in both creating and reading stories, reading other people’s stories and co-creating with others. We have a big potential there,” says Wallander.
With the brand new funding, Pirr goals to change into the world’s largest platform for spicy tales. The firm plans to introduce new options, together with AI-generated e-book covers and textual content narration. They additionally see potential in co-creation, permitting customers to create tales collectively, which it says might function an alternative choice to sexting or a approach so as to add spice to a relationship.
Pirr’s platform is on the market on each Google Play and the App Store, in addition to on-line, on Pirr.me.