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What makes it even more Black Mirror is that the chatbot was from a service called Replika, which (ostensibly at least) creates an AI simulacrum/avatar of the user, trained by feeding it their conversation history/social media content.
And that service has its own macabre backstory: https://www.theverge.com/a/luka-artificial-intelligence-memorial-roman-mazurenko-bot
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I heard about Replika for the first time about a month ago on a podcast and they were saying it is crazy good. People trying it out, out of curiosity and landing up developing feelings for their AI. Also people using it for company while single and then giving up on looking for a real life person as the found it so rewarding. Has a lot of users from memory it was several million active users. What a time to be alive.
greentricky
" A man who planned to assassinate the late queen with a crossbow drew encouragement from an AI chatbot in the days before breaking into the grounds of Windsor Castle, the Old Bailey has heard.
Jaswant Singh Chail, who was 19 at the time, also exchanged thousands of often sexually charged messages with Sarai, his AI girlfriend, before scaling the fence to the royal estate on Christmas Day 2021, the court was told. "