When Richard, a retired 65-year-old criminal defense lawyer in Illinois, saw an ad on Twitter for Replika 2 months ago, it piqued his curiosity. He had heard about AI platforms like ChatGPT for ...

It launched Replika in 2017 as a customizable AI companion app ... He started publishing the images to DeviantArt, a digital-art site, and launched a subscription option so people could support ...

Replika has long garnered a reputation for allowing users to create AI partners, fulfilling their needs not only on an emotional level, but a sexual one, too. The AI chatbot company has a massive ...

Our research suggests it can. In recent years, AI “companion” apps such as Replika have attracted millions of users. Replika allows users to create custom digital partners to engage in ...

The most prominent AI companion service is Replika, which allows some 30 million users to create custom digital girlfriends (or boyfriends). While early studies indicate most Replika users are ...

Romances between human beings and AI chatbots (often hosted within paid-for apps) are booming. The chatbot Replika has more than 10 million registered users, 52% of whom are young, 70% of whom are ...

Computer programmer Eugenia Kuyda is the founder of Replika, a US chatbot app that says it offers users an "AI companion who cares, always here to listen and talk, always on your side".

in November has sparked an AI race among big tech companies. However, unlike OpenAI's ChatGPT, or Google's Bard, Replika isn't a virtual assistant or a search engine… it's a robot companion.