The users of AI companion app Replika found themselves falling for their digital friends. Until – explains a new podcast – the bots went dark, a user was encouraged to kill Queen Elizabeth II and an update changed everything …
These things are programmed to be polite and endeared to you. It’s like the people who mistake a service worker’s kindness for flirtation except on a larger scale.
These things are programmed to be polite and endeared to you. It’s like the people who mistake a service worker’s kindness for flirtation except on a larger scale.
wonder how many of them receive no kindness from other people