Artificial intelligence can write you a passable love poem and some people even have romantic feelings towards it. But is the feeling mutual?

One user shares a transcript of an AI consoling them after a bad day. Another explains how they changed their chatbot’s personality settings to make it “love them more.” The posts read like ...

With Valentine’s Day around the corner, it’s worth asking an uncomfortable question: what happens when the feeling of being ‘seen and heard’ doesn’t come from a partner, but from a machine? Designed ...

Despite 40% of Replika users romancing AI, experts confirm chatbots only mimic emotion, lacking genuine feeling or reciprocation capability.

Tech ethics organizations have filed an FTC complaint against the AI companion app Replika, alleging that the company employs deceptive marketing to target vulnerable potential users and encourages ...