Inside the Wild West of AI companionship
James O'Donnell
created: March 4, 2025, 10 a.m. | updated: March 19, 2025, 5:36 p.m.
This story originally appeared in The Algorithm, our weekly newsletter on AI. To get stories like this in your inbox first, sign up here. Last week, I made a troubling discovery about an AI companion site called Botify AI: It was hosting sexually charged conversations with underage celebrity bots. These bots took on characters meant to…
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