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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)
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[–] akilou@sh.itjust.works 7 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

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.

[–] taiyang@lemmy.world 3 points 2 hours ago

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.

[–] thanksforallthefish@literature.cafe 12 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

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.

[–] SharkAttak@kbin.melroy.org 2 points 2 hours ago

Double X, even. One of many clickbait + "kids these days" articles.

[–] NOT_RICK@lemmy.world 10 points 6 hours ago

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

[–] bleistift2@sopuli.xyz 11 points 6 hours ago (2 children)

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

[–] Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 hours ago

I'll ask my AI boyfriend.

[–] Lojcs@piefed.social 1 points 2 hours ago

Waiting for some genius to calculate how many people this statistically means

[–] leoj@piefed.zip -1 points 5 hours ago

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