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/MogarRage Jul 15 '26

As the younger generation would say "chat im cooked"

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u/Grey_0ne Jul 15 '26

I have the suspicion this is a bit alarmist... Considering they say "it takes less than five minutes for a young boy to create his dream girlfriend on one of these platforms", but only lists platforms that charge a subscription to do anything that chatGPT wouldn't.

Seriously though; I don't rightly know what people expected when society destroyed third spaces for teens to hang out in, handed their 2 year old a tablet and decided to surrender 90 percent of social media to the manosphere.

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u/kikogamerJ2 Jul 15 '26

They didn't expect anything cause they arent even thinking. Way to many people have zero responsibility and capacity to be parents.

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u/whitedolphinn Jul 15 '26

Yeah it's this. They weren't actually thinking or using their brains at the time(s) when they did those things. That's why there's so much confusion from them, I suppose, when they see the result(s) of their behavior(s).

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u/PeaceSoft Jul 15 '26

Even worse, they don't read what they're responding to and just sort of start ranting to themselves about whatever it reminded them of!!! christ