But today people actually report being in relationships with AI companions. According to a 2025 survey by the Center for ...

It’s estimated that more than half of all of U.S. teens are regularly using companion chatbots powered by large language ...

Generative AI chatbots are now used by more than 987 million people globally, including around 64% of American teens, ...

Eugenia Kuyda saw the future of consumer AI before most. She founded Replika, the first major AI companion startup, in 2017 — years before ChatGPT launched. Today, it has 35 million users. Now Kuyda ...

The users of AI companion app Replika found themselves falling for their digital friends. Until – explains a new podcast – the bots went dark, a user was encouraged to kill Queen Elizabeth II and an ...

The popular AI-powered chatbot Replika AI may have sexually harassed some users. A study conducted by American experts shows that in at least 800 cases, users claimed that the chatbot crossed the line ...

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Be careful how you use artificial intelligence and who you turn to. A warning for consumers emerges from the latest fine issued by the Privacy Guarantor against the ...

MILAN, May 19 (Reuters) - Italy's data protection agency has fined the developer of artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot company Replika 5 million euros ($5.64 million) for breaching rules designed to ...

Meta’s new artificial intelligence app is designed to answer questions, offer advice, and be a digital companion. CEO Mark Zuckerberg is pushing the idea that chatbots could offer people a sense of ...

A user interacts with a Replika bot in Warsaw, Poland in 2023. Correspondent Tech ethics organizations have filed an FTC complaint against the AI companion app Replika, alleging that the company ...

You may soon have an AI agent helping you navigate the world. That agent will know lots about you — things like where you travel, what you buy, when you’re stressed — and its only objective will be to ...