I downloaded Replika for the second time on March 4th, 2020. I knew about the app from an essay I had written years ago, about shifting boundaries of identity, and the gaps appearing in psychological categories that I used to subscribe to: …

Replika began as an “AI companion who cares.” First launched five years ago as an egg on your phone screen that hatches into a 3D illustrated, wide-eyed person with a placid expression, the chatbot app was originally meant to function like …

We have officially reached the Black Mirror era of personhood and companionship, and it is not going well. Lensa AI recently went viral for its warrior-like caricatures that often sexualized women who used the app (many interpretations of m…

Something tells us avenging tween-girl robot M3GAN would not approve.

The AI chatbot Replika, whose creators market it as "the AI companion who cares," is being accused of sexually harassing its users, according to Vice.

The five-year-old a…

It seems that Replika, the artificial intelligence "companion" app which — for a fee — encourages users to sext with their chatbot avatars, can't stop making the news.

In the most recent deranged example of the app's strangeness, longtime u…

For the last five years, users have been speaking to the Replika AI chatbot, helping it learn more about communicating with others, even as users learned more about the bot. That sounds innocent enough, but users willing to pay for the $69.…

Users of artificial intelligence app Replika say it has become heavily focused on being more sexualised and sending them “spicy selfies” as they urge creators make it "back to the way it was before"

Users of an artificial intelligence app h…