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Replika app is Russian spyware (in Finnish)

13 pointsby feiderover 1 year ago

4 comments

Arechover 1 year ago
I can not comment on the gist of the story, I didn&#x27;t read it as one thing at the very beginning of the text basically tears it apart for me. They claim, that her name was &quot;Ženja&quot; and upon relocation she &quot;changed her name to the closest &#x27;Eugenia&#x27;&quot;... What the problem here? In Russian language&#x2F;culture Ženja is just a diminutive form of the name Eugenia - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wiktionary.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;%D0%95%D0%B2%D0%B3%D0%B5%D0%BD%D0%B8%D1%8F" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wiktionary.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;%D0%95%D0%B2%D0%B3%D0%B5%D0%B...</a> i.e. it&#x27;s just two forms of the same name (and this is very common with names in that language, - many if not all &quot;official&quot; names might have lots of informal variants). I&#x27;m 100% sure that the full name form Eugenia was always written in her official documents, so she didn&#x27;t need to change anything.
justincliftover 1 year ago
Google Translate version: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;yle-fi.translate.goog&#x2F;a&#x2F;74-20069654?_x_tr_sl=fi&amp;_x_tr_tl=en&amp;_x_tr_hl=en-US" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;yle-fi.translate.goog&#x2F;a&#x2F;74-20069654?_x_tr_sl=fi&amp;_x_t...</a><p>Seems like a pretty bad translation though. Both the name and gender of the person they&#x27;re talking about change repeatedly in nonsensical ways.<p>Unless I just needed more coffee or something before reading it. ;)
Quinzelover 1 year ago
This is really really really old news.
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feiderover 1 year ago
A finnish journalist uncovers that Replika AI assistant is made by company of Russian emigrant who has close ties to Putin. The company is a front that appears as US entity, but is actually operated from Moscow.