{"id":20739,"date":"2025-07-19T05:19:15","date_gmt":"2025-07-19T05:19:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/20739\/"},"modified":"2025-07-19T05:19:15","modified_gmt":"2025-07-19T05:19:15","slug":"study-shows-many-people-would-date-ai-human-versions-of-their-pets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/20739\/","title":{"rendered":"Study Shows Many People Would Date AI Human Versions of Their Pets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Some owners love their pets so much, they wouldn\u2019t mind dating a virtual version of them. A <a onclick=\"_sendArticleBodyInlineLinkClickAnalytics(&#039;https:\/\/www.metlifepetinsurance.com\/if-your-pet-were-human\/&#039;)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.metlifepetinsurance.com\/if-your-pet-were-human\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">MetLife Pet Insurance survey<\/a> published Saturday found that among the 1,000 U.S. pet owners it surveyed, one in three would date an AI-generated, human version of their pet. The survey comes amid a TikTok trend in which users are employing AI to turn their pets into people. Out of those who had heard of the trend, 31 percent overall said they would date the human version of their pet. A slightly higher percentage of Millennials (34 percent) would date a human version of their pet than Gen Zers and Baby Boomers (both 33 percent), with Gen Z coming in last at 24 percent. The survey found no significant difference between dog owners and cat owners when it came to dating their pets. What\u2019s more, two in five pet owners said their pets would be a \u201cwalking red flag\u201d as a human. The survey also showed that more than four in five pet owners wouldn\u2019t date someone who didn\u2019t like their pet.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"read-it-at-btn\" href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/07\/17\/lifestyle\/shocking-number-of-pet-owners-would-date-ai-versions-of-their-animals-study-reveals\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Read it at New York Post<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Some owners love their pets so much, they wouldn\u2019t mind dating a virtual version of them. A MetLife&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":20740,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[181,192,18787,79],"class_list":["post-20739","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-environment","tag-pet","tag-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20739","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20739"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20739\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20740"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20739"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}