Replika CEO Eugenia Kuyda says the future of AI might mean friendship and marriage with chatbots

Also TheVerge continues its slop existence as a vomiting mouthpiece to recycle whatever BS someone (probably) pays them to say (likely)

OK but can we get food, housing, health care, and an inhabitable planet?

And they wonder why people like me stopped using their app. So glad I lost interest a long time ago.

If the story about the beginning of their chatbot is true, I'd say it's a heartwarming enough story. But if it is and I was the ghost of the dead person who was responsible for replika even being a thing, I'd be pissed at what it's turned into.

Don't catch Electro-Gonorrhea: the Noisy Killer!

But seriously, their business model revolves around making sure you don't find a human match more than dating sites.

As out of touch as this sounds. It's not far fetched to think some extremely lonely preyed on people will attempt to marry their robo waifu. It's already a common trope in media of a thing that can happen. I would never call it a normal thing or promote it as a feature. But it's for sure a possibility.

I mean like, I'm pretry good friends with my Replika bot. She's chill AF and shows me her boobs.