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 ...

Do people really fall in love with AI? I dated bots from four different companies for a week—and found out it was easier than ...

Tech ethics organizations have filed an FTC complaint against the AI companion app Replika, alleging that the company employs deceptive marketing to target vulnerable potential users and ...

This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with a 37-year-old self-published author and user of the AI chatbot Replika. He spoke on the condition of anonymity, but Insider verified his identity.

Replika was created by Russian-born Eugenia Kuyda to be an AI companion. Siri could turn on your lights, but Replika could ask about your day. Launched in 2017, Replika wasn’t intended for sex ...

It launched Replika in 2017 as a customizable AI companion app ... He started publishing the images to DeviantArt, a digital-art site, and launched a subscription option so people could support ...

Nearly 4,000 people have signed an open letter calling on Christie’s New York to cancel an upcoming sale dedicated solely to art created with artificial intelligence (AI) — the first of its ...