The chatbot, which offers romantic companionship, has been hit with an FTC complaint from tech ethics organizations ...

Teenagers are falling in love with chatbots. Young people are reporting epidemic levels of loneliness, and some are turning ...

Young people have led makeovers of the concept of love before. But relationships with AI chatbots leave out the compromises and effort of real relationships.

The Young People's is also pushing for the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to classify chatbots offering therapy services ...

The AI companion market has transformed what other applications might consider a bug—AI’s tendency toward sycophancy—into its ...

Replika, for example, interacts with users in text-based conversation ... Harmony, created by RealDoll, combines AI with humanoid robotics to provide a physical and romantic relationship. The growing ...

One 2023 study found that Replika bots tried to speed up the development of relationships with users ... For instance, a bot will send a blurred out “romantic” image to the user, which ...