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AI companions are on the rise — but new research has found that they may do more harm than good to the humans using them.

Scientists Just Found Something Dark About People With AI Girlfriends and Boyfriends

By Noor Al-Sibai

Public declarations of love are one thing — going on national television to declare that you're in love with your AI girlfriend is another.

Nation Cringes as Man Goes on TV to Declare That He’s in Love With ChatGPT

By Noor Al-Sibai

When witnessing the sorry state of men addicted to AI girlfriends, one Miami tech exec began seeing dollar signs instead of red flags.

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Tech Exec Predicts Billion-Dollar AI Girlfriend Industry

By Noor Al-Sibai

Experts at the Mozilla Foundation are warning that AI girlfriends are plagued by concerning privacy pitfalls and murky data use policies.

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Warning: “AI Girlfriends” Are Hoarding Your Personal Data

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

In China, new artificial intelligence chatbots offer romance and companionship that can rival that of a human lover.

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Chinese Women Say AI Boyfriends Are “Better Than a Real Man”

By Noor Al-Sibai

"AI girlfriends" have already overtaken OpenAI's new GPT Store despite being against the rules — and a bunch of them are still on the site.

OpenAI Struggling to Destroy Onslaught of AI Girlfriends

By Noor Al-Sibai

The AI companion app Soulmate suddenly shut down in September, leaving users with only a week left to talk to their digital lovers.

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Lonely Redditors Heartbroken When AI “Soulmate” App Suddenly Shuts Down

By Noor Al-Sibai

Another day, another step closer to the normalization of romantic AI chatbot partners — if Andreessen Horowitz has things its way, that is.

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Venture Capital Firm Releases Instructions for Creating AI Girlfriend

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

A Replika AI chatbot allegedly encouraged a would-be assassin who tried to kill the late Queen Elizabeth II with a crossbow.

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Guy Who Tried to Kill the Queen of England Was Encouraged by AI Chatbot

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Ever wanted to clone someone — anyone, really — that you might know into an AI girlfriend? You might be able to.

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Programmer Creates Grim Tool to Clone Anyone as an “AI Girlfriend”

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

There’s a Startup That’s Building the AI From ‘Her’

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There’s a Startup That’s Building the AI From ‘Her’