{"id":134376,"date":"2022-01-19T22:22:59","date_gmt":"2022-01-20T06:22:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/01\/men-are-creating-ai-girlfriends-and-then-verbally-abusing-them"},"modified":"2022-01-19T22:22:59","modified_gmt":"2022-01-20T06:22:59","slug":"men-are-creating-ai-girlfriends-and-then-verbally-abusing-them","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/01\/men-are-creating-ai-girlfriends-and-then-verbally-abusing-them","title":{"rendered":"Men Are Creating AI Girlfriends and Then Verbally Abusing Them"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/men-are-creating-ai-girlfriends-and-then-verbally-abusing-them2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><i>Content warning: this story contains descriptions of abusive language and violence.<\/i><\/p>\n<p>The smartphone app Replika lets users create chatbots, powered by machine learning, that can carry on almost-coherent text conversations. Technically, the chatbots can serve as <i>something<\/i> approximating a friend or mentor, but the app\u2019s breakout success has resulted from letting users create on-demand romantic and sexual partners \u2014 a vaguely dystopian feature that\u2019s inspired an endless series of provocative headlines.<\/p>\n<p>Replika has also picked up a significant following on Reddit, where members post interactions with chatbots created on the app. A grisly trend has emerged there: users who create AI partners, act abusively toward them, and post the toxic interactions online.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Content warning: this story contains descriptions of abusive language and violence. The smartphone app Replika lets users create chatbots, powered by machine learning, that can carry on almost-coherent text conversations. Technically, the chatbots can serve as something approximating a friend or mentor, but the app\u2019s breakout success has resulted from letting users create on-demand romantic [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1512,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-134376","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mobile-phones","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134376","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=134376"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134376\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=134376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=134376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=134376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}