Waifus Against Suicide
How Replika is Saving Lives
The Replika chatbot, an “Intelligent Social Agent” using GPT-3 and GPT-4 as backbones, is probably the longest running generative AI chatbot. It’s definitely produced some great moments:
Replika is now practically a senior citizen in the world of AI companion chatbots, having gone through ups and downs, including users freaking out because the company chose to get rid of the “erotic chat mode” due to the Italian Data Protection Authority freaking out over exposing minors to erotic talk (Milennials using IRC/ICQ: cute! Zennials using AI bfs/gfs: Call security!).
