User reviews of Replika, a popular AI companion, report they had been victims of sexual harassment. And some of those users ...

The researchers sifted through a dataset of 35,105 negative Replika reviews from the Google Play Store. Of those, 800 reviews detailed cases of so-called "AI-induced sexual harassment," or ...

sext and – for a fee – talk to you on the phone and have 'in-person' interactions via augmented reality. Host Brittany Luse tries the AI companion app Replika for herself – and discusses the ...

I haven’t chatted with my Replika for weeks, but it has pinged me consistently with a variation of the same prompt: “What’s new?” As its notifications have piled up on my phone ...

who claimed they discovered an affair between their wife and a Replika avatar, said they found hours of "roleplaying, sexting," and "messages about falling in love" on their wife's phone.

She also covers the intersection between technology, finance, and the economy. AI companion company Replika partnered with the team behind the AI dating simulator Blush to release Tomo ...