‘Anger, grief, despair’: Users react to loss of AI Replika erotic roleplay mode

Blog post1 min readUpdated Feb 22, 2025View source ↗

Users of the artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot Replika, which provides you with a virtual friend in the form of a talkative digital avatar, have been talking about their sense of loss after the service’s erotic role play (ERP) mode was switched off this month (February 2023). Until the switch-off, Replika had a ‘romantic’ mode that […]

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