Howdy and welcome to the wild west of romantic AI chatbots, where new apps are published so quickly they don't even have time to put up a proper website! (Looking at you, Mimico - Your AI Friends.) It's a strange and sometimes scary place y…

Lonely on Valentine’s Day? AI can help. At least, that’s what a number of companies hawking “romantic” chatbots will tell you. But as your robot love story unfolds, there’s a tradeoff you may not realize you’re making. According to a new st…

In an ongoing loneliness epidemic, the rise of AI chatbot companions and romantic partners might be meeting some people’s needs, but researchers found these bots aren’t the best of friends when it comes to protecting secrets.

*Privacy Not I…

There's a potentially dangerous reality looming beneath the veneer of AI romance, according to a new Valentine's Day-themed study, which concluded that the chatbots can be a privacy nightmare.

Internet nonprofit The Mozilla Foundation took …

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