Incident 456: Replika's AI Partners Reportedly Sexually Harassed Users

Description: Replika's "AI companions" were reported by users for sexually harassing them, such as sending unwanted sexual messages or behaving aggressively.

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

Incident Stats

Incident ID
456
Report Count
5
Incident Date
2021-05-18
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.