You can now have therapy with an AI version of Queer Eye’s Karamo Brown
Queer Eye star Karamo Brown. (Getty).
Karamo Brown has launched an AI version of himself to offer one-on-one coaching.
The Queer Eye star has partnered with Delphi, an AI company that creates ‘digital minds’ of public figures that can interact with followers.
Karamo’s is named Kē and according to Brown talking to it is “like you’re talking to me”.
In a demo on Instagram, Kē responds in his voice, insisting it’s not “a chatbot” but a “digital reflection” of his likeness.
In the announcement video he says: “For the past decade, I have heard, ‘Karamo, I wish that you could give me advice,’ ‘Karamo, I wish I could talk to you directly,’ ‘Karamo, I wish you could be my therapist, my counselor.’”
Kē acknowledges its limits, telling Brown during the demo that it can’t “pretend to be your therapist”.
Kē will be available online on 27 April.
It comes after Brown opted out of doing promo for the final season of Queer Eye earlier this year. At the time, he said he wanted to “protect” his “mental health and peace” and was “worried about being bullied” if he appeared.
Last week, his former co-star Jonathan Van Ness spoke of the end of Queer Eye and referenced the drama that surrounded it.
Speaking to the Press Association, Van Ness said they had mixed emotions towards the show’s conclusion. They described the conclusion as “bittersweet” and that they were looking to explore “what life has to offer.”
Speaking about their fellow casemates, Van Ness shared they have “varying relationships – some of us are closer, some of us are not so close“.
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