AI girlfriends and chatbot companions are changing how some people think about intimacy, rejection and real relationships.

Most conversations about artificial intelligence still typically focus on the same use cases: chatbots that answer questions, image generators that produce pictures on command, and coding assistants ...

AI chatbots, Taylor Swift, and social media influencers all played a part in deciding Cambridge Dictionary's Word of the Year, 2025: "parasocial." Parasocial — revealed by the global dictionary on ...

Two years ago, Cosmopolitan declared that AI was coming for your dating life. Back then, AI’s impending influence on the state of modern love still felt largely theoretical, a prediction that seemed ...

In 2024, a tech bro predicted that “AI girlfriends” would create a $1 billion business — and it seems that youth are busy ...

Amelia Miller has an unusual business card. When I saw the title of "Human-AI Relationship Coach" at a recent technology event, I presumed she was capitalizing on the rise of chatbot romances to make ...

AI is increasingly shaping one unlikely area that many people may not regularly think about: real-life romantic relationships ...

A woman in Japan didn’t really care about whether their connection was real or not when she married her AI boyfriend. She insisted that he had made her life much better, and so committing to the ...