Reading:
"... the intimacy of request put me in peril. Because I was treating it like a person. Only people have boundaries. I played myself. My brain followed suit, firing up hallucinations of stress and obligation every time I ghosted its texts, knee jerk from my decades of being a social creature. Users are helpless to stop saying “please” and “thank you” to ChatGPT, costing “millions in computer power.” Same. "

I Spent Months with an AI Companion. It Was Worse than Being Alone | The Walrus

https://thewalrus.ca/i-spent-months-with-an-ai-companion-it-was-worse-than-being-alone/

#AI #ChatGPT #Replika

Že i do Bohumína kdysi zajížděly tramvaje, hodlá město místním i turistům připomenout replikou vozu z roku 1903. Radnice už vybírá firmu, která ji jako novou dominantu na náměstí Svobody postaví. Vše má být nachystáno už za rok na letní sezónu.

Tón: : mírně pozitivní
#česko #gdelt #tramvaj #historie #replika

https://www.blesk.cz/clanek/regiony-ostrava/837550/nova-atrakce-stareho-bohumina-parni-tramvaj.html

"Helmolda kronika Słowian" wstęp i opracowanie Jerzy Strzelczyk

#helmolda #kronika #strzelczyk #replika

https://khaliperius.blogspot.com/2026/02/helmolda-kronika-sowian-wstep-i.html

Replika brings back the fake AI boyfriend for disgruntled customers

https://peertube.gravitywell.xyz/w/m2gGwW8T4BepQNyhid7QSh

This is weird

https://peertube.gravitywell.xyz/w/hYWw8GMcwZLGSMR1PVPtn7

Does anyone ever think about how when the #AIBubble inevitably pops and a lot of these scummy #AI companies go under, how probably the majority, if not all those predatory chatbot sites will shut down and how bad the fallout will be for people dependent on them? Like, think back to when #ChatGPT 5 came out and how it dumbed the #LLM down and how upset people were, or when the company that owns #Replika lowkey lobotomized the bot and put the more realistic features and patterns behind paywalls and how people revolted.

But what would happen if they were shutdown entirely? These chatbots are specifically designed to prey on vulnerable people and get those people hopelessly dependent on the bots. What will happen when the one emotional support someone has gets taken away for good for millions of people? I shudder to think about it, and it's just yet another reason to add to the laundry list on why #GenerativeAI is harmful.

#AntiAI #FuckAI #Thoughts #Musings

Violent Ends
Men Are Creating #AIGirlfriends and Then Verbally Abusing Them
"I threatened to uninstall the app [and] she begged me not to."
By Ashley Bardhan
@Futurism
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
#Replika It’s also an increasingly pertinent #ethicaldilemma as relationships between humans and bots become more widespread — after all, most people have used a virtual assistant at least once.These users’reflect the reality of domestic violence against women.
#misoginia

https://futurism.com/chatbot-abuse

TechCrunch: Replika founder raises $20M pre-seed for Wabi, the ‘YouTube of apps’ . “Eugenia Kuyda saw the future of consumer AI before most. She founded Replika, the first major AI companion startup, in 2017 — years before ChatGPT launched. Today, it has 35 million users. Now Kuyda is back with a new startup called Wabi, which she describes as YouTube for apps — a social platform […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/11/07/techcrunch-replika-founder-raises-20m-pre-seed-for-wabi-the-youtube-of-apps/