Startup with 6-digit revenue 3 months after debut uses AI to help writers talk dirty

Picture this: You’re writing the last paragraphs of a sexual fantasy story, and you want to craft a cliffhanger to hook your readers into awaiting the sequel. But you’re stuck with writer’s block, and you don’t know how to stick the landing.

What if you could drop keywords into a web-based app that can form sentences and make sense of your thoughts? This is exactly what Content Villain does through its “R-rated” service called TalkDirty.

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Set to launch at the end of July, TalkDirty aims to help writers come up with ideas for erotica stories and fan fiction.

But talking dirty isn’t all that Content Villain does. It also offers content generation services for blogs, startups, and marketing campaigns. It provides marketers, copywriters, writers, and businesses with content that they can use as product descriptions on ecommerce and software-as-a-service platforms, among others.

Content Villain is basing its technology on generative pre-trained transformer-3 (GPT-3), a language model that uses deep learning to produce human-like text. GPT-3 was created by OpenAI, a research and development firm that specializes in artificial intelligence. 

Think of GPT-3 as a Swiss Army knife that can solve a variety of problems in natural language processing. It can perform comprehension and writing tasks at a near-human level, as it has seen more text than most people have in a lifetime.

These models are designed for performing tasks such as answering questions, text summarization, and machine translation. As a result, GPT-3 could help people cut down their writing time.

“OpenAI is seen as the leader of the field with GPT-3 technology, but there are some restrictions that can be frustrating to the end user,” observes Stuart Lansdale, founder of Content Villain.

Case in point: Unlike humans, the model doesn’t learn anything from long-term interactions. It will also filter out “bad language,” which will definitely not work for an application like TalkDirty.

In addition, users have raised concerns against GPT-3 and other language models for their anti-Muslim bias.

To address the problem of “bad language,” Content Villain is integrating multiple tools including OpenAI’s natural language processing platform and other plug-ins. This will allow Content Villain to process relevant content in line with consumer needs.

Let’s talk money

According to Lansdale, Content Villain hit a low six-digit figure in total revenue just three months after it was established in March without raising any funds.

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