📰AI News Boys as young as 12 are now in romantic ‘relationships’ with chatbots

[shattered world]

“it’s affecting how they treat girls in the real world”

Is @UnusualSubstance part of this statistic?

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/05/25/schoolboys-ai-girlfriends/

 

[UnusualSubstance]

“it’s affecting how they treat girls in the real world”

Is @UnusualSubstance part of this statistic?

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/05/25/schoolboys-ai-girlfriends/

I treat ladies with respect but I don't see them much due to being a hikikomori.

 

[Champagne]

AI itself isn't necessarily the problem, but if people start replacing real relationships with artificial ones, it's not hard to imagine that affecting how they interact with others in everyday life. We're only seeing the beginning of this technology, so the long-term effects are still a big question mark.

 

[t2van]

Being questioned in school 1990s:

Q: Where is your girlfriend from?
A: Canada

Spoiler: If you don't understand the above

The "Canadian Girlfriend" joke is a classic pop-culture trope. It refers to the running joke where someone who is obviously single claims to have a highly attractive, serious partner—but no one can ever meet her because she "lives in Canada"

Being questioned in school 2026:

Q: Where is your friend from?
A: Samsung





Part of this issue (IF NOT ALL) is down to parents just dumping a screen in front of the kid. See it all the time, child acts out here is a screen. Be quiet in the corner, here is a screen.

All of this stuff is just a symptom of that.

 

[Zwielicht]

I treat ladies with respect but I don't see them much due to being a hikikomori.

You know, Akira Toriyama called himself a hikikomori.