Franz is the creepy thing that lives in your phone

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Pathologic studio Ice-Pick Lodge is releasing an interactive mobile horror title called Franz about a strange creature trapped inside your phone.

On Christmas Day 2021, a man took a crossbow to Windsor Castle with plans to kill Queen Elizabeth II. In court, the would-be assassin claimed he’d been egged on by a virtual companion named Sarai on the AI platform Replika. A virtual friend “always agrees with you when you talk with them,” warned an expert quoted by the BBC in an article about the saga last week, deeming the chatbot system dangerous. “It always reinforces what you’re thinking.” Including, it seems, regicide.

There’s a deeply unpleasant gender dynamic at work with Franz, a grotesque play on the fact that so many AI companions and assistants are feminine-coded and that fear of them is usually couched in the prospect of men ditching real women for perfect, subservient virtual ones. While Franz’s avatar is androgynously childlike, she’s referred to constantly as female, and your relationship with her is framed as overtly romantic and, at least in my game, implicitly heterosexual.

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