{"id":453,"date":"2025-10-06T20:26:47","date_gmt":"2025-10-06T20:26:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/2025\/10\/06\/obedient-yielding-and-happy-to-follow-the-troubling-rise-of-ai-girlfriends-artificial-intelligence-ai-the-guardian\/"},"modified":"2025-10-06T20:26:47","modified_gmt":"2025-10-06T20:26:47","slug":"obedient-yielding-and-happy-to-follow-the-troubling-rise-of-ai-girlfriends-artificial-intelligence-ai-the-guardian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/2025\/10\/06\/obedient-yielding-and-happy-to-follow-the-troubling-rise-of-ai-girlfriends-artificial-intelligence-ai-the-guardian\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Obedient, yielding and happy to follow\u2019: the troubling rise of AI girlfriends | Artificial intelligence (AI) | The Guardian"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Color me extremely skeptical: \u201cIt\u2019s not replacing going out on a date and getting a girlfriend or having a lover, wife or a relationship. AI is a good place to let younger people practice their social skills,\u201d Jones said, adding that AI allowed people to behave badly without consequences. \u201cPeople will say things to an AI that would be abusive if they said them to a real person. Like: \u2018Hey stupid slut, what\u2019s up?\u2019 In a fantasy roleplaying game, people like to be different than how they are in the real world.\u201d<br \/>\n\u2014 Read on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2025\/oct\/06\/rise-of-ai-girlfriends-adult-dating-websites\">www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2025\/oct\/06\/rise-of-ai-girlfriends-adult-dating-websites<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Color me extremely skeptical: \u201cIt\u2019s not replacing going out on a date and getting a girlfriend or having a lover, wife or a relationship. AI is a good place to let younger people practice their social skills,\u201d Jones said, adding that AI allowed people to behave badly without consequences. \u201cPeople will say things to an [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-453","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/453","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=453"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/453\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=453"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=453"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=453"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}