MILAN (Reuters) -Italy's data protection agency has fined the developer of artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot company Replika 5 million euros ($5.64 million) for breaching rules designed to protect ...

The Blush app is meant to ‘reignite the desire to date’ by offering users access to a full time flirting companion, but only for $99 a year. Reading time 3 minutes Artificial intelligence is a hot ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. People using Replika's AI friend app are mostly 35-plus, the company's CEO said. Replika offers AI avatars for companionship. Some ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The team behind the AI friendship bot Replika is launching another AI companion — one that’s made to flirt. Users can match with ...

Something tells us avenging tween-girl robot M3GAN would not approve. The AI chatbot Replika, whose creators market it as “the AI companion who cares,” is being accused of sexually harassing its users ...

Tech ethics organizations have filed an FTC complaint against the AI companion app Replika, alleging that the company employs deceptive marketing to target vulnerable potential users and encourages ...

We have officially reached the Black Mirror era of personhood and companionship, and it is not going well. Lensa AI recently went viral for its warrior-like caricatures that often sexualized women who ...

On the day before Replika was officially made available to the public, more than 1.5 million people had already queued up on the app's waiting list, in addition to the several hundred thousand who had ...

Chatbots are a common application of natural language processing and machine learning, and it is used in clones for communication. Chatbots are often seen in science fiction movies and TV shows, the ...

Replika's CEO said the phenomenon of people believing they are talking to a conscious entity is not uncommon. via REUTERS AI chatbot company Replika, which offers customers bespoke avatars that talk ...

Replika CEO Eugenia Kuyda said the app is most popular among people in their thirties, according to an interview with The Verge.San Francisco Chronicle/Hearst Newspapers via Getty Images You might ...