Meet the AI-powered chatbot designed to be your virtual companion to help sharpen interpersonal communication skills.

maker of Character.AI, Chai Research Corp. and Luka, Inc., maker of chatbot service Replika — requests information on safety measures and how the companies train their AI models. While more ...

The negative reaction to Replika's removal of erotic role-play content for a short period suggests sexual content is perceived by many users as an advantage of AI friends. However, the easy ...

But in 2022, as Luka leaned hard into steamy Instagram ads, promoting Replika as an "AI girlfriend" capable of role-play and sending NSFW pictures, Rina had noticed an influx of male users whose ...

Replika had to rein in some of the sexual content available on its site after an explosion of interest in 2022 and 2023; in its wake, companies like EVA AI that exclusively cater to the romantic ...

In 2017 a site called Replika harnessed the power of AI’s text-based conversational ability and launched a companion “bot” designed to help solve for human loneliness. The impetus was grief: ...