I found people in serious relationships with AI partners and planned a weekend getaway for them at a remote Airbnb. We barely ...

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Replika has over a million paying users, and says around 60 per cent of them are in romantic relationships with their AIs. Google searches for “AI girlfriend” have surged 525 per cent in the ...

Replika has over a million paying users, and says around 60 per cent of them are in romantic relationships with their AIs. Google searches for “AI girlfriend” have surged 525 per cent in the ...

Replika has over a million paying users, and says around 60 per cent of them are in romantic relationships with their AIs. Google searches for “AI girlfriend” have surged 525 per cent in the ...

The Replika chatbot can be a version of oneself, of an acquaintance or a made-up personality. Users can choose their chatbot’s appearance, clothes, the space in which you interact with them, and even ...

AI-powered companion apps allow users to build characters with which they can text or even hold voice and video calls, but some researchers are concerned how they affect human-to-human relationships.

AI companions like Replika are designed to engage in intimate exchanges, but people use general-purpose chatbots for sex talk too, despite their stricter content moderation policies. Now new ...