{"id":25569,"date":"2025-02-13T14:34:14","date_gmt":"2025-02-13T22:34:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/?p=25569"},"modified":"2025-02-13T14:34:14","modified_gmt":"2025-02-13T22:34:14","slug":"men-are-creating-ai-girlfriends-and-then-verbally-abusing-them","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/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>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 and sexual partners \u2014 a vaguely dystopian feature that\u2019s inspired an\u00a0<a class=\"underline hover:text-futurism hover:no-underline transition-all duration-200 ease-in-out\" href=\"https:\/\/metro.co.uk\/2020\/12\/11\/how-virtual-love-with-chatbots-is-filling-the-romance-void-for-lonely-singles-13735456\/\">endless<\/a>\u00a0<a class=\"underline hover:text-futurism hover:no-underline transition-all duration-200 ease-in-out\" href=\"https:\/\/www.inputmag.com\/features\/chatbots-and-the-loneliness-epidemic-when-ai-harmony-realdoll-replika-is-more-than-just-a-friend\">series<\/a>\u00a0<a class=\"underline hover:text-futurism hover:no-underline transition-all duration-200 ease-in-out\" href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/opinion\/story\/2021-11-29\/artificial-intimacy-sex-technology\">of<\/a>\u00a0<a class=\"underline hover:text-futurism hover:no-underline transition-all duration-200 ease-in-out\" href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/life-style\/china-artificial-intelligence-dating-romance-b1900114.html\">provocative<\/a>\u00a0<a class=\"underline hover:text-futurism hover:no-underline transition-all duration-200 ease-in-out\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/my-girlfriend-is-a-chatbot-11586523208\">headlines<\/a>.<\/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<p>Read more at: <a href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/chatbot-abuse\">futurism.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<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 something 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\u00a0endless\u00a0series\u00a0of\u00a0provocative\u00a0headlines. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/men-are-creating-ai-girlfriends-and-then-verbally-abusing-them\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Men Are Creating AI Girlfriends and Then Verbally Abusing Them<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":21347,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25569","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/watching-300x100-300x100-1.jpg","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8fAkI-6Ep","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25569","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25569"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25569\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25570,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25569\/revisions\/25570"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21347"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}