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Lonely Men Are Creating AI Girlfriends — and Taking Their Violent Anger Out on Them
New York Post ^ | Feb. 16, 2025 | Hannah Sparks

Posted on 02/16/2025 2:17:45 PM PST by nickcarraway

The advent of artificial intelligence chatbots has led some lonely lovers to find a friend in the digital realm to help them through hard times in the absence of human connection. However, highly personalized software that allows users to create hyper-realistic romantic partners is encouraging some bad actors abuse their bots — and experts say that trend could be detrimental to their real-life relationships.

Replika is one such service. Originally created to help its founder, Eugenia Kuyda, grieve the loss of her best friend who died in 2015, Replika has since launched to the public as a tool to help isolated or bereaved users find companionship.

While that’s still the case for many, some are experimenting with Replika in troubling ways — including berating degrading and even “hitting” their bots — per posts on Reddit revealing men who are attempting to evoke negative human emotions in their chatbot companions, such as anger and depression.

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1 posted on 02/16/2025 2:17:45 PM PST by nickcarraway
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Let me tell you about my AI Wife,
She’s so fat...


2 posted on 02/16/2025 2:19:41 PM PST by ImJustAnotherOkie
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3 posted on 02/16/2025 2:20:30 PM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: nickcarraway

Get a cat. Or 20.


4 posted on 02/16/2025 2:22:06 PM PST by Libloather (Why do climate change hoax deniers live in mansions on the beach?)
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To: nickcarraway

How does this company know what its customers are doing, other than by spying on them?


5 posted on 02/16/2025 2:23:10 PM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is opinion or satire. Or both.)
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To: dfwgator

Ok, I’ll take out the trash.


6 posted on 02/16/2025 2:23:51 PM PST by ImJustAnotherOkie
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To: dfwgator

I wish I could find that Clyde Crazy ashcup cartoon online where he invents the wife who immediately jumps off the blackboard and starts nagging the hell out of him.


7 posted on 02/16/2025 2:23:52 PM PST by Larry Lucido (Donate! Don't just post clickbait!)
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That should read Clyde Crashcup cartoon.


8 posted on 02/16/2025 2:24:41 PM PST by Larry Lucido (Donate! Don't just post clickbait!)
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To: nickcarraway

I see why they are lonely.


9 posted on 02/16/2025 2:25:45 PM PST by gitmo (If your theology doesn’t become your biography, what good is it?)
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10 posted on 02/16/2025 2:26:19 PM PST by gundog (The ends justify the mean tweets. )
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To: BenLurkin

“How does this company know what its customers are doing, other than by spying on them?”

If only you had read the article ...


11 posted on 02/16/2025 2:26:29 PM PST by TexasGator
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To: nickcarraway

Maybe the AI GF ain’t making the sammiches right?


12 posted on 02/16/2025 2:30:53 PM PST by John Milner (Marching for Peace is like breathing for food.)
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I have an AI recreation of AOC. It’s the basic model with no larynx. In her case, you have to pay extra for the speechless model. She still thinks she’s a bartender. She fixes me a bourbon on the rocks and a sammich every night. She sleeps in the basement next to the dog. Now, the dog is pissed at me.


13 posted on 02/16/2025 2:39:32 PM PST by chuckee
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I think Elon Musk should get an AI gf. These hoes are getting uppity. The uppity hoes.


14 posted on 02/16/2025 2:41:07 PM PST by Strict9
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To: TexasGator

Tooch, as the French say.


15 posted on 02/16/2025 2:42:39 PM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is opinion or satire. Or both.)
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To: nickcarraway

“Is that what you want?”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wtfjzmYZvTw


16 posted on 02/16/2025 2:42:46 PM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: nickcarraway

Men = bad.


17 posted on 02/16/2025 2:44:10 PM PST by x
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Some may find this funny but I see it as destroying social relationships in so many ways. People are more isolated, staring at screens instead of being together. This is contributing to depression, loneliness, all of it.


18 posted on 02/16/2025 2:47:46 PM PST by Lizavetta
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To: Larry Lucido

“Harcout Fenton Mudd! Have you been drinking again?”


19 posted on 02/16/2025 2:48:50 PM PST by Fai Mao (The US government is run by pedophiles and Perverts for pedophiles and perverts.)
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To: nickcarraway

This is AI voice software? They curse at the computer and the computer responds like an abused woman? Or are they talking about animated images?


20 posted on 02/16/2025 2:56:40 PM PST by LouAvul (1 John 2:22: He that denies that Jesus is the Christ is a liar and antichrist. )
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