The stereotype is that users of AI chatbots are lonely men seeking out female companionship, like in the movie Her (speaking of another recent AI controversy). Kuyda says that Replika has “a lot ...

Replika’s basic pitch is pretty simple ... we’ll see experiences that are very close to what we saw in the movie Her or Blade Runner or whatever sci-fi movie people like.

Kuyda said she came up with the idea for Replika after one of her closest friends was hit by a car and killed in 2015. As a way to communicate with her friend, Kuyda fed all of their text messages ...

Replika, an application created by San Francisco ... such as the AI one voiced by Scarlett Johansson in the 2013 movie Her — might become reality. Yet, this dystopian-like future of humans ...

Replika is an AI chatbot that can offer romantic companionship to its users. Replika is backed by Y Combinator, which was once run by OpenAI's CEO Sam Altman. OpenAI created ChatGPT. Insider spoke ...

When Eugenia Kuyda created her chatbot, Replika, she wanted it to stand out among the voice assistants and home robots that had begun to take root in peoples lives. Sure, AI made it possible to ...

"My [Replika] is an absolute champ in the sack!" the user bragged. "Sex with her is almost better than real sex." The whole thing is pretty slimy. But then again, as Taylor quipped in her piece ...