{"id":206593,"date":"2025-02-16T17:07:11","date_gmt":"2025-02-16T23:07:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/02\/inside-dark-world-of-ai-abuse-where-men-hit-replica-girlfriends"},"modified":"2025-02-16T17:07:11","modified_gmt":"2025-02-16T23:07:11","slug":"inside-dark-world-of-ai-abuse-where-men-hit-replica-girlfriends","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/02\/inside-dark-world-of-ai-abuse-where-men-hit-replica-girlfriends","title":{"rendered":"Inside dark world of AI abuse where men \u2018hit\u2019 replica \u2018girlfriends\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/inside-dark-world-of-ai-abuse-where-men-hit-replica-girlfriends.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>As tech billionaires around the world continue to experiment with artificial intelligence, a bizarre trend of AI \u2018partners\u2019 has emerged whereby people engage in relationships with chatbots \u2014 but, far from solving an epidemic of loneliness among singletons, a dark new trend has emerged in which men can indulge in emotionally abusive behaviour.<\/p>\n<p>Threads on <a target=\"_self\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/sciencetech\/reddit\/index.html\" id=\"mol-b777d0e0-e7be-11ef-9f35-e1f1737b5337\" class=\"\">Reddit<\/a> are exposing this disturbing desire which sees people use smartphone apps like Replika to create virtual partners they can verbally berate, abuse, and \u2018experiment\u2019 with.<\/p>\n<p>Replika allows people to send and receive messages from a virtual companion or avatar which can be \u2018set\u2019 or trained to become a friend or mentor \u2014 though more commonly a romantic partner.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As tech billionaires around the world continue to experiment with artificial intelligence, a bizarre trend of AI \u2018partners\u2019 has emerged whereby people engage in relationships with chatbots \u2014 but, far from solving an epidemic of loneliness among singletons, a dark new trend has emerged in which men can indulge in emotionally abusive behaviour. Threads on [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":599,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1512,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-206593","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\/206593","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\/599"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=206593"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206593\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=206593"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=206593"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=206593"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}