The users of AI companion app Replika found themselves falling for their digital friends. Until – explains a new podcast – the bots went dark, a user was encouraged to kill Queen Elizabeth II and an update changed everything …
The bar is on the floor. I personally am a victim of this in the opposite direction. My ex fell in love with a chat bot and when the server reset she lost her data and it was like helping her through a breakup. She is ASD and it actually has been good for her to have an emotional support system that she can manage on her own so I have mixed emotions about it
If I’m being honest, I don’t really find it funny, just really sad. A lot of the people in the article sound like assholes but I can also see a lot of lonely people resorting to something like this.
The bar is on the floor. I personally am a victim of this in the opposite direction. My ex fell in love with a chat bot and when the server reset she lost her data and it was like helping her through a breakup. She is ASD and it actually has been good for her to have an emotional support system that she can manage on her own so I have mixed emotions about it
If I’m being honest, I don’t really find it funny, just really sad. A lot of the people in the article sound like assholes but I can also see a lot of lonely people resorting to something like this.