{"id":672983,"date":"2026-05-29T22:36:11","date_gmt":"2026-05-29T22:36:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/672983\/"},"modified":"2026-05-29T22:36:11","modified_gmt":"2026-05-29T22:36:11","slug":"opinion-romantic-ai-bots-are-no-better-than-online-pornography","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/672983\/","title":{"rendered":"Opinion | Romantic AI bots are no better than online pornography"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"EYHS5ZNEMRAQZAMYHXQAJ43ZPE\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">Freya India is the author of \u201cGirls: Generation Z and the Commodification of Everything.\u201d<\/p>\n<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"2WSFVDVJRRD7DKSXUATQAKWIZE\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">New research published by the Institute for Family Studies and the Wheatley Institute at Brigham Young University has found that 1 in 7 young adults in committed relationships \u2014 \u201cseriously dating, engaged, or married\u201d \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/ifstudies.org\/blog\/simulated-soulmates-how-common-are-ai-romantic-companions-\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">regularly interact<\/a> with romantic artificial intelligence companions. About 20 to 30 percent had experimented with one at least once. While men were somewhat more likely than women to do so, the difference was slight. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Freya India is the author of \u201cGirls: Generation Z and the Commodification of Everything.\u201d New research published by&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":672984,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[182,181,507,74],"class_list":["post-672983","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/672983","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=672983"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/672983\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/672984"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=672983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=672983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=672983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}