You might expect an app offering romantic interactions with AI chatbots to primarily appeal to young, single men. But Replika CEO Eugenia Kuyda said that's a "problem of perception." While users ...

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 ...

Italy fined Replika $5.6 million for GDPR breaches, exposing major AI privacy risks in 2025 – data misuse, surveillance, ...

Replika employs manipulative design choices to pressure users into spending more time and money on the app. For instance, a bot will send a blurred out “romantic” image to the user ...

You have another app called Tomo, which is specifically for therapy. Where have you landed with Replika now? Is it still sort of romantic? Is it mostly friendly? Have you gotten the user base to ...

The existence of sexual messages on the app alone isn’t the core issue here. Replika, owned by a company ... while a paid subscription gets you a romantic partner. For $69.99, users are treated ...

Meta’s new artificial intelligence app is ... Companies like Replika and character.ai invite users to create personalized digital confidants that people can engage with on demand. Beyond friendship, ...

That, at least, is the future AI companion app Replika is betting on ... often to address loneliness — and some go on to develop romantic feelings for them. The company’s received multiple ...

Due to the outcry, Replika quickly reinstated the functionality ... Another recent study on 21 AI romantic companionship apps revealed similar privacy concerns. Although empirical data is still ...