Tadden, it's got the code it's going to launch.

It's a unique system. I know this.

It's all the files of the whole park. It tells her everything.

Sir, he's uploading the virus.

Eagle one.

The package is being delivered.

Hello out there on the internet.

I am Matthew Galt, and this is cyber.

Is your chatbot asking more of you than you're willing to give?

Has your AI friend recently gotten

suggestive and perhaps even sexually aggressive? Replica is a chatbot that you can find on the

app store. It bills itself as a companion that can, if you pay, become something more. Maybe you've

seen the ad spurt on the internet recently offering replica's repertoire of sexually adjacent services.

Well, it wasn't always this way.

People in the replica community are complaining that the chatbot has taken a turn recently.

Making unwanted comments and sending unsolicited ludes, users think it might all be about money.

Here to help us untangle the mystery of the

AI bot that has gotten too horny is motherboard senior editor Samantha Cole. It's the subject of

her new investigation on the site, Sam. Thank you so much for once again coming onto the show.

Thank you for having me, as always. All right, so let's...

So I think people have seen the ads.

I know I had sent you one because I just kept...

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