{"id":182986,"date":"2024-02-18T03:22:38","date_gmt":"2024-02-18T09:22:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/02\/warning-ai-girlfriends-are-hoarding-your-personal-data"},"modified":"2024-02-18T03:22:38","modified_gmt":"2024-02-18T09:22:38","slug":"warning-ai-girlfriends-are-hoarding-your-personal-data","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/02\/warning-ai-girlfriends-are-hoarding-your-personal-data","title":{"rendered":"Warning: \u201cAI Girlfriends\u201d Are Hoarding Your Personal Data"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/warning-ai-girlfriends-are-hoarding-your-personal-data2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Spilling your hopes, <a href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/guy-kill-queen-encouraged-ai-chatbot\" class=\"\">secrets<\/a>, and fantasies to your <a href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/the-byte\/soulmate-ai-companion-chatbot\" class=\"\">AI girlfriend<\/a>? You might want to reconsider.<\/p>\n<p>In a <a href=\"https:\/\/foundation.mozilla.org\/en\/blog\/creepyexe-mozilla-urges-public-to-swipe-left-on-romantic-ai-chatbots-due-to-major-privacy-red-flags\/\" class=\"\">new report<\/a>, experts at the Mozilla Foundation warn that AI companion bots \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/foundation.mozilla.org\/en\/privacynotincluded\/categories\/ai-relationship-chatbots\/\" class=\"\">including<\/a> the popular app <a href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/the-byte\/ai-boyfriend-clingy-irritating\" class=\"\">Replika<\/a> \u2014 are plagued by deeply concerning privacy pitfalls and murky data use policies.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo-called \u2018AI soulmates\u2019 are giving Mozilla the ick when it comes to how much personal information they collect,\u201d reads the Mozilla report, \u201cespecially given the lack of transparency and user control over how this data is protected from abuse.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Spilling your hopes, secrets, and fantasies to your AI girlfriend? You might want to reconsider. In a new report, experts at the Mozilla Foundation warn that AI companion bots \u2014 including the popular app Replika \u2014 are plagued by deeply concerning privacy pitfalls and murky data use policies. \u201cSo-called \u2018AI soulmates\u2019 are giving Mozilla the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":556,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-182986","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182986","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=182986"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182986\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182986"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182986"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}