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AI Romance Apps Reportedly Compromise User Privacy for Data Harvesting
- Occurred
- Feb 14, 2024
- Published
- Feb 15, 2024
- Source
- AI Incident Database
Summary
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.
Developers
- Romantic AI
- Replika
- Genesia AI Friend & Partner
- EVA AI Chat Bot & Soulmate
- CrushOn.AI
- Chai
- Chatbot developers
Deployers
- Romantic AI
- Replika
- Genesia AI Friend & Partner
- EVA AI Chat Bot & Soulmate
- CrushOn.AI
- Chai
Harmed parties
- General public
- Chatbot users
- Privacy
- Replika users
- Chai users
- Romantic AI users
- EVA AI users
- CrushOn.AI users
- Genesia AI Friend & Partner users
Tags
- chatbot
- privacy
- data
Classification
Category confidence: 95%
Severity confidence: 90%
Rationale: Research reveals AI chatbots harvesting sensitive user data without adequate consent or security.
Classifier: Qwen/Qwen3.5-35B-A3B-FP8