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> 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-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-gi...
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shadowfiend • today at 12:19 PM
... Yeah, that's a replacement for your girlfriend kind of like watching TV is a replacement for eating dinner...
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Wow, look at that, teenage boys making awful choices, who’d have guessed