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 ...

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.

However, unlike OpenAI's ChatGPT, or Google's Bard, Replika isn't a virtual assistant or a search engine… it's a robot companion. Users can select their relationship with the bot, which has options ...

When I first heard about the idea behind Replika, I thought it sounded kind of dystopian. I envisioned a world where we’d rather spend time with our AI friends than our real ones.

But AI companion apps Replika, Chai and Character.ai each have 10 million downloads on the Google app store alone, while in 2018 Microsoft boasted its China-based chatbot XiaoIce had 660 million ...

Luka Inc.'s Replika, the most prominent generative AI companion app, was released in 2017, while others like Paradot have popped up in the past year. The apps often lock away coveted features like ...

As AI companions from companies like Replika, Character AI, and Nomi AI abound, love is no longer strictly human. In this ...

San Francisco-based AI chatbot maker, Replika-- which operates a freemium 'virtual friendship' service based on customizable digital avatars whose "personalized" responses are powered by ...

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 ...