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Some start-ups see AI cloning expertise as a potentially profitable niche, says the writer.
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Sarah Kessler
It started as a writing assistant. Jeremy Allaire, chief executive of the stablecoin company Circle, trained an AI agent to think and write like him, feeding it his podcast interviews, his public writing and a corpus of internal communications.
He called it the “Jeremy Allaire skill”. The bot helped him compose drafts. And Allaire was impressed by how well the artificial intelligence captured the way he thinks and writes.
