Especially with the arrival of Valentine’s Day, advertisements saying that artificial intelligence can help lonely people have taken over social media. When these “romantic” chat bots are examined, it becomes clear that the situation is not innocent at all, aiming to find some solution to loneliness.
Mozilla’s *Privacy Not Included project revealed that artificial intelligence lovers collect incredibly high amounts of personal data. Almost all of this collected information is either sold or shared. So your virtual lover is quite a gossip and tells everyone everything about you.
Tell me the truth, do you love me for my personal information?
“To be completely clear, artificial intelligence girlfriends and friends are not your friends,” Misha Rykov, one of Mozilla researchers, said in the press release. While using the phrase, “Although they are marketed as something that will improve your mental health, they specialize in developing addiction, loneliness and toxicity, and they do this by getting as much data as they can from you.” He used the expressions.
In its study, Mozilla examined 11 different artificial intelligence romantic chat bots. Among these bots, there were also well-known applications such as Replika, Chai, Romantic AI, EVA AI Chat Bot & Soulmate, CrushOn.AI. While each of the chatbots in question managed to get a Privacy Not Included badge, they also fell into the worst category among all the products and services that Mozilla examined.
Artificial intelligence lovers also collect different data
We have previously come across many studies in which our information is collected and used for different purposes. Artificial intelligence lovers also collect different information from us. For example, CrushOn.AI collects information on topics such as sexual health and drug use. 90 percent of the applications count or share this information. More than half of them do not even allow you to delete your information. While these applications fail in terms of security, only Genesia meets Mozilla’s minimum security standard.
The results Mozilla obtained when it examined the tracking codes are also quite remarkable. These applications run an average of 2663 tracking codes per minute. One of the applications that got this number so high was Romantic AI, which runs 24 thousand 354 tracking codes per minute. To summarize, without going into details one by one, these applications ask you to share your “secrets and desires”, send voice recordings and send photos.