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1 In 5 Boys Know Someone Their Age Who's In A Relationship With An AI Chatbot (www.huffingtonpost.co.uk)
submitted 2 hours ago by return2ozma@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world
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[–] thanksforallthefish@literature.cafe 6 points 25 minutes ago

Press X to doubt on that headline.

The article doesn't support it. My teen son's response (we're in the UK): "bullshit"

Clickbait imnsho.

[–] NOT_RICK@lemmy.world 10 points 54 minutes ago

Someone who is under the delusion that they’re in a relationship with an AI chatbot

[–] leoj@piefed.zip 2 points 29 minutes ago

Sample size of "over 1 thousand", feels meaningfully meaningless.

[–] bleistift2@sopuli.xyz 13 points 1 hour ago

I wonder how many AI-relationships it actually takes to get 20% of a network to know one of them.