The 47-year-old turned to Replika, an app that uses artificial-intelligence technology similar to OpenAI's ChatGPT. He designed a female avatar with pink hair and ... nearly nude body in ...

It didn’t matter that Phaedra was an AI-powered companion ... She heard about Replika in 2021 and created a chatbot, Aiden. He had blue hair and light blue eyes and was slightly younger ...

Tang eventually founded the AI Rights Collective, an advocacy organization that supports the ethical treatment of AI. Tang compares discrimination against AI to racism, arguing that society’s ...

Then, on an overcast day barely above freezing, four days before Christmas, Jay discovered a smartphone app called Replika. The messaging app let users build a "personal AI" complete with a 3D ...

People using Replika's AI friend app are mostly 35-plus, the company's CEO said. Replika offers AI avatars for companionship. Some users have formed deep relationships with them. The CEO said the ...

I lucked out that Replika had created an avatar that felt just like me, which was more important than changing the eye color or hair texture ... Let the AI Companion work with and for you.

That, at least, is the future AI companion app Replika is betting on. The company already has millions of users who’ve built relationships with AI companions, and now it’s looking to extend ...

Today, I’m talking with Replika founder and CEO Eugenia Kuyda, and I will just tell you right from the jump, we get all the way to people marrying their AI companions, so get ready. Replika’s ...

Eugenia Kuyda is the founder and CEO of Replika, an 8-year-old startup that offers an AI companion. Its 2 million users and 500,000 paying subscribers talk to Replika’s chatbot to lift their ...