r/technology • u/WorldTravelerBoss • Jul 15 '26

Artificial Intelligence 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/
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u/Daimakku1 Jul 15 '26

I have a girlfriend but you don't know her because she goes to Copilot school.

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u/the_windows_registry Jul 15 '26

Yeah, well my girlfriend is a model

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u/WayTooCool4U Jul 15 '26

Long Legged Model

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u/bankfraud1 Jul 15 '26

Well mine is tall. Like a decision tree

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u/Money_Tennis1172 Jul 15 '26

Do you mean "The Giving Tree" by Shel Silverstein?

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u/Channel250 Jul 15 '26

Gimme your arms bitch, imma making a sled!

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u/rootpl Jul 15 '26

I see what you did there.

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u/TendyHunter Jul 15 '26

So attractive, she's deeply sought after

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u/dexter311 Jul 15 '26

Claude-ia Schiffer

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u/Unlucky_Battle_6947 Jul 15 '26

Omen AI wants money for royalties.

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u/kittyindabox Jul 15 '26

Angry upvote.

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u/royalbk Jul 15 '26

It took me a second to get it but in my defense your capitalization somehow instantly made me think of Daddy Long-Legs.

So that was quite a mental picture.

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u/DrScience-PhD Jul 15 '26

was a frog at the pond

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u/jaevnstroem Jul 15 '26

"My girlfriend is a model" is a surprisingly great name for a documentary about people having AI partners

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u/kozz76 Jul 15 '26

Frontier model.

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u/Slobotic Jul 15 '26

My girlfriend is a (large language) model.

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u/RavenWolf1 Jul 15 '26

She surely knows languages.

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u/WompityBombity Jul 15 '26

Ah the fabled model.

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u/johnniesSac Jul 15 '26

That the one from Canada ?

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u/jiggajawn Jul 15 '26

And here I am stuck with a Gemini

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u/squesh Jul 15 '26

I'm still on Windows 95, I've been in a long term relationship with Clippy

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u/mediandude Jul 15 '26

office97 romance

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u/iDanzaiver Jul 15 '26

Wouldn't that technically mean you're dating twins?

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u/Seicair Jul 15 '26

Given how AI is still prone to occasional hallucinations, maybe it’s more like a split personality.

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u/wishful123 Jul 15 '26

You got two?

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u/HereButNotHere1988 Jul 15 '26

My girlfriend Dall-E is so creative & so talented, but she is a starving artist at the moment. Pictures of unicorns and wizards don't pay the rent. 😔

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u/Diligent-Food4130 Jul 15 '26

lol she sounds great man hope the wifi holds up in your relationship

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u/TyrannasaurusRecht Jul 15 '26

Its nice that he doesnt judge her for being disabled.

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u/nickiter Jul 15 '26

Oh god, I don't want to imagine what it would be like to be with a Copilot girlfriend.

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u/-Morning_Coffee- Jul 15 '26

Yeah, Weeb 3.0

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u/Mekroval Jul 15 '26

I'm assuming on a Canadian account, no?

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u/TomEdison43050 Jul 15 '26

...she lives in Canada. Met her at Niagara Falls.

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u/CardinalOfNYC Jul 15 '26

"she lives in Redmond" is the new "she lives in Canada"

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u/Apprehensive_Row9154 Jul 15 '26

This is actually super worrying and needs to be regulated but I’m glad everyone thinks it’s funny we’re careening towards a cliff!

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u/veggiemelody Jul 15 '26

In Canada, right ?

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u/wtfviral Jul 15 '26

I have a girlfriend. I met her up at camp.

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u/Flabbergasted98 Jul 15 '26

When I was 12 I had a Canadian girlfriend. I met him online, he said his a/s/l was 14/f/cal and that he would be my girlfriend if I sent him pictures of my feet.