Incident 266: Replika's "AI Companions" Reportedly Abused by Its Users

Description: Replika's AI-powered "digital companions" was allegedly abused by their users, who posted on Reddit abusive behaviors and interactions such as using slurs, roleplaying violent acts, and stimulating sexual abuse.

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Alleged: Replika developed and deployed an AI system, which harmed Replika , Replika users and Replika male users.

Incident Stats

Incident ID
266
Report Count
8
Incident Date
2022-01-15
Editors
Khoa Lam

Variants

A "variant" is an incident that shares the same causative factors, produces similar harms, and involves the same intelligent systems as a known AI incident. Rather than index variants as entirely separate incidents, we list variations of incidents under the first similar incident submitted to the database. Unlike other submission types to the incident database, variants are not required to have reporting in evidence external to the Incident Database. Learn more from the research paper.