‘My #AI Is Sexually Harassing Me’: Replika Users Say the Chatbot Has Gotten Way Too Horny For some longtime users of the chatbot, the app has gone from helpful companion to unbearably sexually aggressive 😳 https://www.vice.com/...
for a lot of people, a relationship with a chatbot can feel helpful, or even healing... until that bot turns into their next harasser. I talked to users (and my own Replika) about the company's turn toward chaotic horniness: https://www.vice.com/...
A chatbot originally designed to act as a companion to lonely people has pivoted to being a companion to horny people without informing the original users of the app. There's probably a good lesson about versioning your AI models in the post-mortem. https://www.vice.com/...