Now, you might reasonably argue that AI chat isn't actually sex work, or that since no actual women are involved in it the usual "anti trafficking" arguments don't hold. But the real question is: what happens when there's a moral panic, and someone digs up the most explicit, weirdest bits of Replika chats and reads them out in a congressional inquiry?
As a company founder I'm just horrified to read these sorts of stories.
Maybe they tried, but I believe it was not feasible on mobile Safari due to its functional limitation. And their audience would not be willing to switch to desktop, which is understandable.