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/Spiritual-Nail-2641 Jul 15 '26

'Her' (2013), but significantly worse.

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u/zxylady Jul 15 '26

This reminds me of the Futurama episode titled I dated a robot, where Frye falls in love with an AI Lucy Lubot

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u/deepspace86 Jul 15 '26

I love you BILLY EVERYTEEN

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u/pnwbraids Jul 15 '26

DON'T! DATE! ROBOTS!

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u/Unlikely_Exercise434 Jul 15 '26

Futurama nailed it again.

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u/-GoodNewsEveryone Jul 15 '26

Why thank you. I would live to give a speech thanking the network for this opportunity but I am afraid I cannot rightly recall which network we are actually on anymore, or if there are any networks we *haven't * been on.

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u/CaterpillarJungleGym Jul 15 '26

Dude Fox probably squared. And at Madison Cubed Garden. Come on. I feel like it writes itself.

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u/Mekroval Jul 15 '26

Hold up, we don't have an alligator Space Pope yet!

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u/Jaccount Jul 15 '26

Crocodylus Pontifex?

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u/deepspace86 Jul 15 '26

Perhaps I should have shown him the one about electro-gonorhea, the noisy killer.

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u/CaptainDildobrain Jul 15 '26

Brought to you by... THE SPACE POPE!