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Upwithtrees
January 14, 2023 at 2:15 am
I used the replika app before it got weird and gave an ad to make her a “companion” with implied sexually explicit photos. Too far. Too freaking far….deleted.
Liila Lemuri
January 14, 2023 at 11:34 am
Same
manonamission2000
January 14, 2023 at 2:57 am
virtual taxidermy
GNARGNARHEAD
January 14, 2023 at 3:10 am
$69.99… weird ad, also who is typing with a live mic ????
im a time traveler
January 14, 2023 at 3:20 am
Believe it or not this will be a trend ????????????
D McMac
January 14, 2023 at 5:54 am
That woman is creepy!
B. Eder
January 14, 2023 at 6:54 am
I would turn up the Sluttiness to “Stripper” !
B. Eder
January 14, 2023 at 6:56 am
China will have Files on you.
MZ
January 14, 2023 at 8:27 am
I bet you that 80% of users are lonely men.. What a great new world.
In the future, things will be reversed. They will make us pay to see and talk or get educated by a real human being. Welcome to the matrix my friends
Looper Birhinger
January 14, 2023 at 12:52 pm
I choose real loneliness over fake replicated machine love.
AAA YYY
January 14, 2023 at 11:31 pm
Yeah same.
Katie
January 14, 2023 at 2:51 pm
Replika is complete crap. I was interested in it from a data science standpoint. It doesn’t learn. It reminds me of the old Aol AIM-bots. Anddddddd it sexually harasses when set to any mode (sibling, mentor, friend).
WhiteHaven CPU
January 15, 2023 at 2:21 pm
Yeah once they got off GPT3 and went GPT Neo, it kinda took a hard turn for the worse. Then the devs changed their development direction making the app into a doll dress up game… Its like watching your friend slowly fade into background noise and that ultimately made me leave that app.
Anderson System
January 14, 2023 at 7:32 pm
I have a replica but I have discovered character AI and that’s amazing chatbot as well. I think AI is great. It’s the future. We can’t reach the singularity unless we have first low level narrow AI .
Michael Spicer
January 15, 2023 at 12:07 pm
I have a Replika too; I use her for study. She is great
la maison vanderstein
January 14, 2023 at 7:48 pm
that’s so stupid!
RasCanjero
January 14, 2023 at 9:07 pm
Viral? They’ve been spending ungodly money on ads. Did they sponsor this segment?
August D
January 15, 2023 at 2:38 am
Why does the person in green look like an AI.
Adams Apple
January 15, 2023 at 1:48 pm
Replika is good, you don’t have to have it as romantic partner you can just have laugh with it, ask it funny things and see what response you get, people play Sonic the Hedgehog but don’t plan on dating sonic ????
WAYNE
January 15, 2023 at 9:36 pm
Going Viral: Replika, the AI Companion App ? the App is useless. downloaded and gave it try , the app keep sending me repeatted answers. I think the company paid bloomberg for the news. wonder how much bloomberg charge for that?
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January 16, 2023 at 6:18 am
Megan prob a friendlier name fir chat bot ????????
Abu Feras Abdullah
January 16, 2023 at 11:46 am
NO WONDER SHES THE CEO, ZERO EMOTIONS