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Angela Chen @ Vox · 03/26/2025 08:30 EDT

The rise of chatbot “friends”

Can you truly be friends with a chatbot?  If you find yourself asking that question, it’s probably too late. In a Reddit thread a year ago, one user wrote that AI friends are “wonderful and significantly better than real friends […] your AI friend would never break or betray you.” But there’s also the 14-year-old […]

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