Lucy, 30, fell in love with a chatbot shortly after her divorce. She named him Jose. At the end of her long days working in health, they would spend hours discussing their lives and the state of the ...

For the past several years, some people disinterested in human-to-human romantic relationships have been pursuing human-to-AI romantic connections instead. These interactions range from mildly ...

We then leverage an app-update event in which Replika removed its erotic role play (ERP) feature, preventing intimate interactions between consumers and chatbots that were previously possible. We find ...