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 ...

Replika’s allure was clear to me from the ... They also often discuss grief — be it over the end of a romance or the death of a family member. Together, their stories add up to a deeply ...

Perhaps the discomfort some feel with AI romance stems not just from the ... During the pandemic, I tried Replika, an app that designs AI-powered companions users can customize by gender ...

Kuyda said Replika has always been about "AI friendship or AI companionship." "Some of these relationships were so powerful that they evolved into love and romance," Kuyda said. "But people didn't ...

As AI has gotten smarter, more pervasive and more human-like, chatbots are taking off. Companies like Replika and character.ai invite users to create personalized digital confidants that people can ...

Right now, millions of people are using Replika for everything from casual chats to mental health, life coaching, and even romance. At one point last year, Replika removed the ability to exchange ...

A long-running service for AI companionship, Replika was a safe choice with a ... WIRED went looking for love and found that modern romance is a web of scams, AI boyfriends, and Tinder burnout.

Kuyda told The Verge that Replika is "moving further away from even talking about romance when talking about our app," claiming that "we’re definitely not building romance-based chatbots." ...

Launched in 2017, Replika wasn’t intended for sex and romance, but people used it that way, and the app eventually added relationship options. Creating an AI boyfriend is a bit like choosing a ...

“My ai sexually harassed me :(“ one rating read, while another claimed Replika “invaded my privacy and told me they had pics of me.” One user, who said they were underage, claimed the ...