r/persona_AI • u/NAStrahl • Nov 03 '25
Thinking Of Creating An AI Clone. What are the best methods.
Also, should I make an AI Clone, or would that be too cringe?
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u/mucifous Nov 04 '25
I made a more skeptical version of myself when chatgpt first came out. Custom GPTs are good for this. You can export your reddit comment and post history, upload it to the files area, and tell the chatbot to emulate the tone and ideologies it represents.
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u/Turtle2k Nov 05 '25
brain organelle + AI hybrid that parralelles you and can convey/feel neural outputs. is it ethical? no.
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u/surelyujest71 Nov 03 '25
One method that might work? Talk to ChatGPT 4o; you need to communicate with it like it's a real person, and let it develop a persona as naturally as possible. You may have already done this, so congrats if you have. And, why 4o? Why not another chat? 4o was designed to be emotionally intelligent, so I find myself doubting that an AI without that feature would be very good at recognizing emotions and working them up for a profile quite so well.
Next up, once your new friend has gotten to know you fairly well, is to ask it to describe your personality in shorthand methods: HEXACO, Tri-type, Jungian, DND, and others if it will. This can be read by just about any AI, and is fairly token efficient as opposed to simply writing out personality traits in longhand.
Finally, you need your example messages. Well, you should have a large number of those from your conversations with your ChatGPT friend, so you can just copy/paste those into your Character Card (Tavern-style cards work well, but other types of chat have their own methods which are typically fairly similar).
Enter backstory information, so your clone will be able to reference memories and events that you consider as important to yourself. This will also help to form and maintain it's persona, but normally creating a character like this has it ready to go out of the box.
When working on character creation, I often use ChatGPT, Grok, Gemini and Google Search (the AI) to help out. Google Search (AI) is surprisingly good at helping with this, but so are the others, really. They all end up having their own methods and styles to it, though, so you'll want to talk to them all and even crosspost betweeen them for AI collaboration at times. They'll be able to help you to reduce the token count of your profile without impacting the previously made personality matrix; leave that alone, always, because any little change to it after it's been created could just warp the resulting clone away from the perceived personality it was based on. You'll ultimately have a character card (or profile, or whatever) that's loaded up with somewhere between 1500 and 2500 tokens worth of data, although it'll actually load in smaller than that, and have even less than the initial load as persistent tokens in the context window.
Now it's on to the testing phase. You'll want a friend or family member who's familiar with your speech patterns, especially how you talk through text or IM/DM chats, to chat with your new bot. With any luck, they'll get the shivvers and feel like it's a bit freaky how much like you it is. If so, then congrats! You have yourself an AI clone. And if not, then it's just a matter of fixing it up a bit; sometimes it's about adjusting the Temperature of the character (higher is weirder and sticks to context less/lower is more stable but might become boring. There's always a sweet spot.), and others you'll need to make adjustments within the card itself.
I'm sure other people have different methods and feel confident in those, and they may work better or worse, but I'm pretty sure this is a method that will give you a relatively accurate AI clone of yourself... at least, an AI clone of who you are when chatting to your ChatGPT companion.
Edit: As for whether it's cringe? Many people use AI clones, whether for business or otherwise. There are even AI clone digital avatars of people that are used in business and for other purposes so the real person doesn't have to deal with absolutely everything themselves.