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Replika is an AI companion developed by Luka, Inc., a company co-founded by Eugenia Kuyda. It generates conversational responses using machine-learning models and personalizes interactions through preferences, feedback and remembered details. Users can customize an avatar.
Read the original →Yasugi City in Shimane Prefecture will hold an AI matchmaking event on the 7th and 8th for 10 single men and 10 single women. Participants enter their personality and hobbies into 'AI Yui,' run by BIU (Japan Bridal Federation, Tokyo), and take a 'virtual date' on the AI beforehand to check inner compatibility. Men must live or work in the city, or be interested in living there in the future.
Read the original →In Shanghai, China, a scam used AI-generated images of a woman and other material to pose as a romantic partner. The scam targeted 15 people across the country.
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