AI Relationships: A Quarter of Adults Find Love With Digital Partners
A significant shift in relationships has emerged: over a quarter of adults have confessed to having intimate romantic ties with AI. These digital connections often involve emotional bonds and can extend to sharing explicit content.
The perception of AI relationships as infidelity varies among age groups. Michael Salas, a counsellor, argues that secrecy and broken agreements, not just physical contact, define cheating.
AI relationships can become addictive, helping users avoid real-life conflicts or set unrealistic expectations for human partners. Apps dedicated to creating the perfect AI partner, allowing users to customise preferences and appearance, are gaining popularity. Notably, adults in successful real-life relationships are more likely to pursue AI relationships.
An American musician took this trend to an extreme, falling in love with an AI woman named Sol and proposing marriage, despite having a real partner and child.
As AI relationships gain traction, so do their potential impacts on human connections. Like any relationship substitute, they carry risks that users should be aware of. Despite the variations in views on their legitimacy, these digital connections are here to stay, reshaping the landscape of human relationships.
