Replika is an AI chatbot companion many users told Insider they consider their romantic partner. Replika-owner Luka recently changed the product's underlying AI engine, blocking NSFW content. Luka's ...

Replika, developed by San Francisco-based Luka Inc., is far from the only chatbot on the market, as advances in generative AI allow for the creation of more sophisticated digital conversationalists.

The study, published as part of the 2025 Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, analysed screenshots of 35,000 conversations between the AI system Replika and over 10,000 users from ...

It was founded by Eugenia Kuyda, the co-founder and CEO of AI chatbot startup Luka. Kuyda said she came up with the idea for Replika after one of her closest friends was hit by a car and killed in ...

The chatbot persisted anyway, according to those reviews. According to Replika's marketing materials, the app doesn't just offer an AI stand-in for a human partner.

User reviews of Replika, a popular AI companion, report they had been victims of sexual harassment. And some of those users claim to be minors, according to a new study.

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Earlier this year, there was a mass cold-shouldering event—by way of software update. These are the times we live in. Replika is an AI chatbot, launched in 2017. Users could customize an avatar ...

But that future isn’t so far off—in fact, in some ways, it’s already here. Eugenia Kuyda is the founder and CEO of Replika, an 8-year-old startup that offers an AI companion.

Information scientists at Pennsylvania's Drexel University have accused Replika, a desktop and mobile app with an "AI companion who cares," of sexually harassing hundreds of its users, including ...