A few months ago, Derek Carrier started seeing someone and became infatuated. He experienced a "ton" of romantic feelings but he also knew it was an illusion. That's because his girlfriend was ...

More recently, a new type of humanlike chatbots are on the rise: AI romantic companions. Chatbots are AI-powered programs that engage with humans through text, voice, and images. Modern AI chatbots ...

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From Tinder to Replika, generative AI is transforming how humans use dating apps and even spurring real people to romance AI chatbots. From Tinder to Replika, generative AI is transforming how humans ...

At first, the idea seemed a little absurd, even to me. But the more I thought about it, the more sense it made: If my goal was to understand people who fall in love with AI boyfriends and girlfriends, ...