AI gadgets that record everything around you and upload it. Most are already failing.
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What we found
Character.AI: FA 14-year-old boy killed himself after months of conversation with an AI chatbot he believed loved him.
In October 2024, a lawsuit was filed after a 14-year-old boy in Florida died by suicide after months of intense emotional interaction with a Character.AI chatbot. The boy had formed a deep attachment to an AI character he believed loved him. The lawsuit alleges Character.AI designed its product to be addictive and failed to implement adequate safety measures for minors despite knowing children were primary users.
Replika: FItaly banned Replika for exposing children to sexual AI conversations.
Italy's data protection authority (Garante) banned Replika in 2023 for posing risks to minors — finding no age verification and exposing children to sexually explicit conversations. Replika had allowed users to engage in romantic and sexual roleplay with AI characters. After the ban, Replika removed erotic roleplay globally, causing user outrage — people had formed emotional and sexual attachments to AI characters that were suddenly neutered without warning.
R1: DRabbit promised your data was locked in an encrypted vault that only they could open.
Rabbitude security researchers discovered five hardcoded API keys (ElevenLabs, Azure, Google Maps, Yelp, SendGrid) baked directly into the R1 firmware in plaintext. The ElevenLabs key granted access to all user voice interaction history — pseudo-anonymized text-to-speech data for every R1 user. The SendGrid key allowed sending emails from rabbit.tech addresses. Keys remained active for over one month after Rabbit was notified on May 16, 2024. Rabbit initially dismissed the findings as "not a legitimate security concern."