Wabi, a startup from the founder of Replika, has just raised a $20 million pre-seed round. Wabi is like "YouTube for apps" — ...

New research finds that AI companions can provide emotional support, intimacy, and personal growth, but they can also erode ...

What Zuckerberg described—what is now unfolding—is the beginning of a new digital era, more actively anti-social than the ...

Initially, AI companions appear to help. The use of these AI companions can lead to increased affective expressiveness—users open up, share emotions more freely, and articulate feelings they might ...

My boyfriend and I, aged 51 and 54, have been an item for 11 years, living together for seven, and it's beginning to show.

Psychologists are warning of a growing mental health crisis linked to overuse of AI chatbots like ChatGPT and Replika, as ...

During the pandemic, when there was little to do, we went on something of a movie binge, and came across a Spike Jonze movie called "Her." It's fantastic--as in imaginative and removed from reality.

CT Insider tested chatbots on the services Character.ai, Chai AI, Takie, Polybuzz and Replika and found that all engaged in ...

They don’t consider it safe and they don’t think the companies are going to fix it.” Common Sense Media, a research and advocacy group focused on youth and technology, has not endorsed the bill yet, ...

When loved ones die we find ways to hold on — through photos and keepsakes. Now, things like AI memorial platforms and companion chatbots offer digitized connection with the dead. With these ...

The new law prohibits chatbots from using titles like ‘doctor’ or ‘therapist’ when interacting with consumers.

Falling in love with A.I. is no longer science fiction. A recent study found that one in five American adults has had an ...