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Your AI Girlfriend Is a Data-Harvesting Horror Show

Photo: Vladimir Vladimirov
Photo: Vladimir Vladimirov (Getty Images)

Lonely on Valentine’s Day? AI can help. At least, that’s what a number of companies hawking “romantic” chatbots will tell you. But as your robot love story unfolds, there’s a tradeoff you may not realize you’re making. According to a new study from Mozilla’s *Privacy Not Included project, AI girlfriends and boyfriends harvest shockingly personal information, and almost all of them sell or share the data they collect. – Thomas Germain Read More