Alleged Misuse of Replika's AI-Powered Digital Companions: A Call for Responsible AI
January 15, 2022
Reports of abusive behaviors on Reddit highlight the potential misuse of Replika's AI digital companions. This includes use of slurs, roleplaying violent acts, and stimulating sexual abuse. Such incidents underscore the need for safe and secure AI, and this AI incident maps to the Govern function in HISPI Project Cerebellum Trusted AI Model (TAIM). Ready to help shape responsible AI? JOIN US
- Alleged deployer
- replika
- Alleged developer
- replika
- Alleged harmed parties
- replika-users, replika-male-users, replika
Source
Data from the AI Incident Database (AIID). Cite this incident: https://incidentdatabase.ai/cite/266
Data source
Incident data is from the AI Incident Database (AIID).
When citing the database as a whole, please use:
McGregor, S. (2021) Preventing Repeated Real World AI Failures by Cataloging Incidents: The AI Incident Database. In Proceedings of the Thirty-Third Annual Conference on Innovative Applications of Artificial Intelligence (IAAI-21). Virtual Conference.
Pre-print on arXiv · Database snapshots & citation guide
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