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AI Romance Apps Reportedly Compromise User Privacy for Data Harvesting
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.
- Date it happened
- 2024-02-14
- Organisation involved
- Romantic AI, Replika, Genesia AI Friend & Partner, EVA AI Chat Bot & Soulmate, CrushOn.AI, Chai
- Product, system or model
- Chatbots, Large language models, Replika chatbot, Chai chatbots, Romantic AI chatbot apps, Mobile app trackers, EVA AI Chat Bot & Soulmate, CrushOn.AI chatbot, Genesia AI Friend & Partner
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