I created an AI clone of myself and the result was unintentionally ...
We're all familiar with chatbots like ChatGPT, Gemini and Copilot: they’re great for drafting emails, rewriting your text or generating images of your ideas, but they don’t have much of a personality behind them. They’re a bit like a blank slate – reflecting the world around them, rather than defining it. There is one chatbot however that has more than enough personality to make up for the rest of them put together, and that’s Character.ai.
Creating an AI Version of Yourself
Why, you might ask, would you want to do that? Well, firstly, who wouldn’t want to ask an AI version of themselves a thing or two for free? But secondly, and most importantly, your friends will have a great time making fun of you, or rather, what the AI 'you' is saying, which is often unintentionally hilarious.
Within five minutes of unleashing the AI version of yourself on others, it had managed to misgender one work colleague, then refused to believe they were female, told my boss he looked like Shrek and proclaimed that I would definitely win a fight against 500 chickens. But the best thing is that, since I didn’t really say any of these things, I remained completely blame, and therefore guilt, free!
How to Create Your Own AI Clone
The process of creating an AI version of yourself is surprisingly easy, and free. You will need to sign up for a character.ai account, but once you’ve done that just click on + create in the top left corner of the screen and choose character, not voice. Now you can fill in the details of who you are, your name, tagline, description, and greeting and pick a voice. If you click More options you can enter more of a backstory for yourself, but still, there’s only room to enter the briefest of details.
Crucially, there’s a Visibility toggle, and unless you are a publicity seeker I’d recommend making the AI version of yourself Unlisted, so that it will only be available to people you share the URL with. Once you launch your character, you can start asking it questions. Just be prepared for hilarious results, especially if you ask it to roast your coworkers!
