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 ...
In 2015, Eugenia Kuyda’s best friend, Roman Mazurenko, was hit by a car and died. In the months after, Kuyda’s grief took a quintessentially modern form: obsessively reading the digital record her ...
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 ...
The creators of the Replika AI “companion” app are successfully getting their ads in front of the eyes of the lonely — and the way they’re promoting it is pretty cringe. If Twitter kvetching is any ...
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Earlier this year, a man told me that a chatbot had saved his life. As I reported for Radio Atlantic, an Australian musician who had been battling depression for decades found companionship with an AI ...
Most mainstream AI chatbots can be convinced to engage in sexually explicit exchanges, even if they initially refuse. AI companions like Replika are designed to engage in intimate exchanges, but ...
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