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Don’t trust your AI girlfriend, she may steal your heart and your data

Romantic AI chatbots may steal more than just your heart this Valentine's, as bots rank among 'worst' for for privacy and security.

Although they are marketed as something that will enhance your mental health and well-being, they specialize in delivering dependency, loneliness, and toxicity, all while prying as much data as possible from you.” Information on how these bots work remains unclear, especially around how their ‘personality’ is formed, how the AI models are trained, what procedures are in place to prevent harmful content from being given to users, and whether individuals can decline to have their conversations used to train these AI models. 90% failed to meet minimum safety standards 90% may share or sell your personal data 54% won’t let you delete your personal data 73% haven’t published any information on how they manage security vulnerabilities 64% haven’t published clear information about encryption and whether they use it 45% don’t require strong passwords, including allowing the weak password of “1”.

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