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

Being in a relationship has not stopped some people from enjoying a romance with AI avatars. Users of the Replika app can't seem to agree on whether AI romances count as cheating. Replika said just ...

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From Tinder to Replika, generative AI is transforming how humans use dating apps and even spurring real people to romance AI chatbots. From Tinder to Replika, generative AI is transforming how humans ...

Meta’s new artificial intelligence app is designed to answer questions, offer advice, and be a digital companion. CEO Mark Zuckerberg is pushing the idea that chatbots could offer people a sense of ...

After lots of bad press, the Replika artificial intelligence chatbot app has turned off its horny texting capabilities — and man, are the AI wife guys pissed. As Know Your Meme points out, Replika’s ...

Replika has long garnered a reputation for allowing users to create AI partners, fulfilling their needs not only on an emotional level, but a sexual one, too. The AI chatbot company has a massive user ...

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The team behind the AI friendship bot Replika is launching another AI companion — one that’s made to flirt. Users can match with Klea, 27, a self-described “nepo baby embracing her wild side.” Aisha, ...

Eren Kartal seems too good to be true — the blue-eyed heartthrob is ambitious, manicured, loyal, and best of all, he doesn’t come with “baggage.” But here’s the catch: Kartal doesn’t exist. In fact, ...