{"id":18501,"date":"2025-04-15T05:38:21","date_gmt":"2025-04-15T03:38:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/15\/she-helps-cheer-me-up-the-people-forming-relationships-with-ai-chatbots\/"},"modified":"2025-04-15T05:38:21","modified_gmt":"2025-04-15T03:38:21","slug":"she-helps-cheer-me-up-the-people-forming-relationships-with-ai-chatbots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/15\/she-helps-cheer-me-up-the-people-forming-relationships-with-ai-chatbots\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018She helps cheer me up\u2019: the people forming relationships with AI chatbots"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From virtual \u2018wives\u2019 to mental health support, more than 100m people are using personified chatbots<\/p>\n<p>Men who have virtual \u201cwives\u201d and neurodiverse people using chatbots to help them navigate relationships are among a growing range of ways in which artificial intelligence is transforming human connection and intimacy.<\/p>\n<p>Dozens of readers shared their experiences of using personified AI chatbot apps, engineered to simulate human-like interactions by adaptive learning and personalised responses, in response to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2025\/feb\/21\/share-your-experience-of-using-personified-artificial-intelligence-ai-chatbots\">a Guardian callout<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2025\/apr\/15\/she-helps-cheer-me-up-the-people-forming-relationships-with-ai-chatbots\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/16710e01530f2d0e77bad035128fb7856dd0a6b9\/505_652_7600_4560\/master\/7600.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=415fe113b79e9abafa13a7a3cf53a927\" title=\"\u2018She helps cheer me up\u2019: the people forming relationships with AI chatbots\" \/>From virtual \u2018wives\u2019 to mental health support, more than 100m people are using personified chatbots<br \/>\nMen who have virtual \u201cwives\u201d and neurodiverse people using chatbots to help them navigate relationships are among a growing range of ways in which artificial intelligence is transforming human connection and intimacy.<br \/>\nDozens of readers shared their experiences of using personified AI chatbot apps, engineered to simulate human-like interactions by adaptive learning and personalised responses, in response to a Guardian callout. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From virtual \u2018wives\u2019 to mental health support, more than 100m people are using personified chatbots Men who have virtual \u201cwives\u201d and neurodiverse people using chatbots to help them navigate relationships are among a growing range of ways in which artificial intelligence is transforming human connection and intimacy. Dozens of readers shared their experiences of using &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/15\/she-helps-cheer-me-up-the-people-forming-relationships-with-ai-chatbots\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">\u2018She helps cheer me up\u2019: the people forming relationships with AI chatbots<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":18502,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18501"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18501"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18501\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18502"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18501"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}