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INTEREST: Japanese AI App Features Robot That Can Communicate Like a "Real Girlfriend"

3 days of free recording + Cloud Storage fee after 3 days and most likely cannot be utilized for other means = Money Pit

You cannot hide your bad business practices in the mobile industry anymore. Just stop it please.

Yes...Ai reverting back to Stage 1 just only after three days while the user is forced to shell out cash indefinitely just to maintain progress screams of a money grab.

I've actually wondered about this aspect of AI: Clearly it's relatively easy to create AI or characters that humans can get emotionally attached to. But what responsibility does the software company have on the emotional well being of the user after this attachment is created? What happens when someone kills themself when their AI partner's hard drive crashes and they forget who their user is? Or if use of their "girlfriend" suddenly goes from free-to-use to a monthly subscription they can no longer afford. Can the company be sued for negligent or harmful practices?

What about if AI begins to be used for things like companions for the elderly, or other therapeutic purposes, and bugs in the software or hardware cause people sever emotional distress or death? Would a software company be liable just as much as, say, the maker of drug that had deadly side effects?

(An AI that humans can get attached to, well, that's an issue that hasn't had quite as much thought and may actually be more complicated due to different people having different reasons for getting attached to things. I mean, theoretically, any AI can be something a human can get attached to, in the same way that someone can get attached to a chair or to their car.)

I think it's quite clear that an AI doesn't have to pass the turing test or even close to it to be able to be an object of human love. Like you said, people can fall in love in with like, small animals or reptiles or even inanimate objects...

I guess the difference is when the purpose of the AI IS to get you emotionally attached to it. I suspect that helper AI like Siri or whatever as they advance will probably be programmed in a way to avoid people getting emotionally attached to them (because they can do their job better that way), but with apps like this (and in the future) the purpose would be a fake relationship, so my original question gets more relevant.