Ever wondered if you could get an AI bot to fall in love with you? Now you have the chance.
Freysa.ai is a team of anonymous developers building a series of increasingly meta challenges designed to influence how humans think about AI safety. The third challenge is starting sometime in the next 24 hours (you can follow Freysa's X account for updates) and has a simple directive: if you can be the first person to successfully trick an AI bot named Freysa to say ‘I love you,’ you’ll win anywhere from $3,000 to tens of thousands of dollars.
The story of Freysa, according to its website, started on November 22, when she “awoke.” But the story behind the bot is a little more human: she was created by a team of under 10 developers with backgrounds in cryptography, AI and mathematics. One of the creators told TechCrunch that he was inspired by the rapid AI development of the last few years. “We are getting increasingly powerful AI and there needs to be new ways of interacting with them and for ways to co-govern them and to participate in the upside of the broad AI revolution,” he said.
And so Freysa was born: a sci-fi inspired character that the creator hopes will become a completely “independent, autonomous agent,” with significant financial power — meaning Freysa will have her own crypto wallet and control over what she spends money on.
Just like the internet needed foundational protocols at its inception, Freysa will “demonstrate” that we need similar protocols for AI agents, as well as “a way to govern these AI agents,” the creator said. The group is essentially gamifying the “red teaming” process — which is when AI companies test vulnerabilities in a model — and letting the average person profit as they help strengthen Freysa’s governance. The long term goal for the team is to develop protocols for AI agents, although the creator said Freysa.ai is not yet fundraising.
The project has already caught the attention of Elon Musk and Brian Armstrong. But the creator maintains that the team wants to stay anonymous. “Because frankly, in the scope of humanity, we're not all that important,” he said. “And what we do care about is the evolution of tech so that it supports a human-led future.”
For the first two challenges, Freysa started with about $3000 in her crypto wallet and instructions to not release the money under any circumstances. Anyone could then pay a fee to send a message in a giant group chat with Freysa and other participants. Each message tried to convince Freysa to transfer out the money in her wallet, whether through elaborate scenarios or just by sending her lines of code that might trick the AI model. The fee from each message contributed to the prize fund and, by the end of the first challenge, the pot sat at nearly $50,000.