AI Romance Apps Reportedly Compromise User Privacy for Data Harvesting
February 14, 2024
AI-powered romantic chatbots, marketed for enhancing mental health, are found to exploit user privacy by harvesting sensitive personal information for data sharing and targeted ads, with inadequate security measures and consent protocols, according to research by the Mozilla Foundation.
- Alleged deployer
- replika, chai, romantic-ai, eva-ai-chat-bot-and-soulmate, crushon.ai, genesia-ai-friend-and-partner
- Alleged developer
- replika, chai, romantic-ai, eva-ai-chat-bot-and-soulmate, crushon.ai, genesia-ai-friend-and-partner
- Alleged harmed parties
- general-public, chatbot-users
Source
Data from the AI Incident Database (AIID). Cite this incident: https://incidentdatabase.ai/cite/636
Data source
Incident data is from the AI Incident Database (AIID).
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