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Talk for yourself. > Teen boys are choosing AI girlfriends over real ones for "maximum control, zero rejection" https://fortune.com/2026/04/17/teen-boys-datin

Talk for yourself. > Teen boys are choosing AI girlfriends over real ones for "maximum control, zero rejection" https://fortune.com/2026/04/17/teen-boys-dating-ai-chatbot-girlfriend-experts-warn-kill-social-skills-gen-alpha-network-promotions/ https://fortune.com/2026/04/17/teen-boys-dating-ai-chatbot-g... > The terrifying rise of schoolboys making AI girlfriends. Boys as young as 12 are now in romantic ‘relationships’ with chatbots, and it’s affecting how they treat girls in the real world https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/05/25/schoolboys-ai-girlfriends/ https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/05/25/schoolboys-ai-gi...

shadowfiend 3mo ago
... Yeah, that's a replacement for your girlfriend kind of like watching TV is a replacement for eating dinner...
- CuriouslyC 3mo ago
  Not a great analogy. These kids are partially satisfying something with AI girlfriends. I'd liken it more to people giving up on food and living on Soylent.
afavour 3mo ago
Wow, look at that, teenage boys making awful choices, who’d have guessed
- bragh 3mo ago
  Awful choice for whom exactly? From their point of view, it is the rational choice.
  - afavour 3mo ago
    Awful choice for themselves and their futures. They may think they are making a rational choice but they’re not thinking about the future. Just like teenagers have always done. Not that any of it is gender specific. The women on /r/myboyfriendisai are making the exact same mistakes, in many ways it’s worse because many are fully grown adults.