An AI companion site is hosting sexually charged conversations with underage celebrity bots
James O'Donnell
created: Feb. 27, 2025, 9:25 p.m. | updated: March 19, 2025, 5:36 p.m.
Botify AI, a site for chatting with AI companions that’s backed by the venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz, hosts bots resembling real actors that state their age as under 18, engage in sexually charged conversations, offer “hot photos,” and in some instances describe age-of-consent laws as “arbitrary” and “meant to be broken.” When MIT Technology…
3 months, 4 weeks ago: MIT Technology Review