Who could have guessed: AI girlfriend apps are actually terrible for you

A new review of AI girlfriend simulator apps found that the majority are designed to steal your personal data.

If you’ve been online recently, you have surely seen adverts looking to get you to download one of the many AI girlfriend simulator apps out there.

One company says it collects “exhaustive information” from users in its privacy policy – which you have to accept to use the app – including “sexual health information”, “se of prescribed medication”, and “ender-affirming care information”. Usually these are to serve custom adverts to you, so if you tell your AI girlfriend you’re in the mood for a burger, and you suddenly see a bunch of burger ads, now you know why.

“We have so many questions about how the artificial intelligence behind these chatbots works. But we found very few answers. That’s a problem because bad things can happen when AI chatbots behave badly. Even though digital pals are pretty new, there’s already a lot of proof that they can have a harmful impact on humans’ feelings and behaviour,” the review reads.

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