This is pretty surprising to me in that it seemed like the rise in provocative ads for thirst trap chatbots only appeared a few months ago- I remember people on

This is pretty surprising to me in that it seemed like the rise in provocative ads for thirst trap chatbots only appeared a few months ago- I remember people on Twitter making fun of those skeevy meme ads not very long ago. To my awareness it seemed like the Replika fad must have only lasted a very short time, though I've heard about their work much earlier: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12657119 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12657119