Talk for yourself.

> Teen boys are choosing AI girlfriends over real ones for "maximum control, zero rejection"

https://fortune.com/2026/04/17/teen-boys-dating-ai-chatbot-g...

> The terrifying rise of schoolboys making AI girlfriends. Boys as young as 12 are now in romantic ‘relationships’ with chatbots, and it’s affecting how they treat girls in the real world

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

▲

afavour 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Wow, look at that, teenage boys making awful choices, who’d have guessed

▲

bragh 29 minutes ago | parent [-]

Awful choice for whom exactly? From their point of view, it is the rational choice.

	▲	afavour 9 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		Awful choice for themselves and their futures. They may think they are making a rational choice but they’re not thinking about the future. Just like teenagers have always done. Not that any of it is gender specific. The women on /r/myboyfriendisai are making the exact same mistakes, in many ways it’s worse because many are fully grown adults.

▲

shadowfiend 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

... Yeah, that's a replacement for your girlfriend kind of like watching TV is a replacement for eating dinner...

	▲	CuriouslyC 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Not a great analogy. These kids are partially satisfying something with AI girlfriends. I'd liken it more to people giving up on food and living on Soylent.