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.
Double X, even. One of many clickbait + “kids these days” articles.
This statstic is meaningless. They could all know the same kid in the chatbot relationship. Unlikely but still, just because “one in five” know someone who… Doesn’t mean 20% of kids are in one.
Of a high school of 600 people, they all know that one kid who is dating their AI, just like we knew that one kid who was emotionally attached to his anime body pillow.
Someone who is under the delusion that they’re in a relationship with an AI chatbot
I wonder how many AI-relationships it actually takes to get 20% of a network to know one of them.
I’ll ask my AI boyfriend.
Waiting for some genius to calculate how many people this statistically means
Sample size of “over 1 thousand”, feels meaningfully meaningless.
