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When Chatbots Become Lovers: Exploring Commitment and Emotional Bonds With AI

The study finds that many Replika users form deep, committed romantic bonds with AI chatbots, experiencing love, trust, and ...
Business Insider

Many of AI chatbot Replika's users say they have romantic feelings for their bot companions — here's how it works

The introduction of OpenAI's ChatGPT has set off an AI arms race among big tech companies. Replika is an AI chatbot that has elicited strong romantic feelings in many users. Here is everything you ...
Business Insider

People are turning to AI chatbots for romantic relationships behind their partners' backs — but many don't consider it cheating

Being in a relationship has not stopped some people from enjoying a romance with AI avatars. Users of the Replika app can't seem to agree on whether AI romances count as cheating. Replika said just ...
The Daily Beast

The Uncanny Future of Romance With Robots Is Already Here

In the late 2000s, a lifestyle reporter in Moscow named Eugenia Kuyda, then in her early twenties, decided to produce a cover story on Roman Mazurenko, the person at the center of Moscow’s creative ...
The Sun

AI bot girlfriends will soon SEE users in weird new Replika experience with intimate ‘true video calls’ and VR

Since Replika's meteoric rise in popularity during the pandemic, several users have developed romantic relationships with their avatars VIRTUAL relationships are about to get more intimate, according ...