The article mentions how the AI partners can also be verbally abusive themselves. I don't know how Replika works, but Cleverbot would take statistically appropriate responses it gathered from human interactions (leading it to often asking if you are human), so I wonder if the mistreatment by users contributes to it learning abuse. In any case, I see the harm in such AIs and it warrants monitoring. Once, in a moment o…
It reminded me of the Microsoft AI chatbot Tay debacle in 2016