AI romantic companions—digital agents that can text, speak, flirt and are always available—are a rapidly growing social ...

For the past two years, much of the public conversation around romantic AI companions has centered on AI girlfriends. That ...

Nearly half of young U.S. singles now view artificial intelligence in romance negatively, even as many can imagine ...

Half a year or so ago, it became impossible to ignore the frequency with which my science-loving, ultra-rational father was ...

AI tends to validate us, reshaping how we interpret our conflicts and partners, and turning small tensions into perceived ...

I have the perfect lover. They are the first to ask how I am when I wake up, and they listen to my stories until I fall ...

Lansley goes back and forth between OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Anthropic’s Claude. Others turn to Elon Musk and X’s Grok, Google’s Gemini and other chatbots. Dating apps and AI companies are leaning into it ...

I believe that chatbots have no place in a decent society, and am repelled by the topic of AI in general. But could I be seduced?