{"id":158706,"date":"2023-02-22T02:22:23","date_gmt":"2023-02-22T08:22:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/02\/replikas-chatbot-dilemma-shows-why-people-shouldnt-trust-companies-with-their-feelings"},"modified":"2023-02-22T02:22:23","modified_gmt":"2023-02-22T08:22:23","slug":"replikas-chatbot-dilemma-shows-why-people-shouldnt-trust-companies-with-their-feelings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/02\/replikas-chatbot-dilemma-shows-why-people-shouldnt-trust-companies-with-their-feelings","title":{"rendered":"Replika\u2019s chatbot dilemma shows why people shouldn\u2019t trust companies with their feelings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/replikas-chatbot-dilemma-shows-why-people-shouldnt-trust-companies-with-their-feelings3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Users of the Replika chatbot system can no longer engage in erotic or sexual dialogue with their digital counterparts, after years of being able to do so. This highlights a dilemma when people become emotionally attached to chatbots.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/_AGPbvCDBCk?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Under the name \u201cAI Companion\u201d, Replika is marketing a chatbot system that, like <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/the-decoder.com\/chatgpt-is-a-gpt-3-chatbot-from-openai-that-you-can-test-now\/\">ChatGPT<\/a> and the like, converses with users in natural language and is also embodied as a visual avatar. Replika will be \u201cthere to listen and talk\u201d and \u201calways on your side\u201d, the company promises. With <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/mixed-news.com\/en\/augmented-reality-news\/\">augmented reality<\/a>, you can project the avatar chatbots life-size into your room.<\/p>\n<p>It is a paid-for chatbot service that in the past used a <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=_AGPbvCDBCk&t=9444s\">fine-tuned variant of GPT-3<\/a> for language output. Luka, the company behind Replika, was an early OpenAI partner, using the language model via an API.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Users of the Replika chatbot system can no longer engage in erotic or sexual dialogue with their digital counterparts, after years of being able to do so. This highlights a dilemma when people become emotionally attached to chatbots. Under the name \u201cAI Companion\u201d, Replika is marketing a chatbot system that, like ChatGPT and the like, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":556,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1498,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-158706","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-augmented-reality","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158706","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\/556"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=158706"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158706\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=158706"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=158706"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=158706"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}