Study of Replika chatbot reveals users forming deep romantic bonds, marriages, and emotional reliance on AI partners in ...

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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 ...

Is Replika AI a real person? Replika AI is not a real person. Instead, it is a chatbot that wears a name and an avatar that its users design for it, and can even have personality traits and interests ...

In an interview with Decoder host Nilay Patel, Replika founder and CEO Eugenia Kuyda delved into the topic of AI companionship, exploring the boundaries of digital relationships and the ethical ...

Luka, the creators behind the enormously popular AI friendbot called Replika, is releasing a new app meant specifically for dating and strengthening relationships. The new app, called Blush, is ...

Since Replika's meteoric rise in popularity during the pandemic, several users have developed romantic relationships with their avatars VIRTUAL relationships are about to get more intimate, according ...

After removing the ability to engage in erotic roleplay last month, a decision that came to the dismay of countless users, Reuters reports that chatbot company Replika has reinstated the ability for ...

Italy's Data Protection Agency said on Friday it was prohibiting artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot company Replika from using the personal data of Italian users, citing risks to minors and ...

It seems to fit a time when people are increasingly getting lost in the digital world. Studies show: Social media is one of ...