{"id":1337,"date":"2024-01-13T18:07:24","date_gmt":"2024-01-13T18:07:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2024\/01\/13\/ai-girlfriends-are-here-but-theres-a-dark-side-to-virtual-companions-arwa-mahdawi\/"},"modified":"2024-01-13T18:07:24","modified_gmt":"2024-01-13T18:07:24","slug":"ai-girlfriends-are-here-but-theres-a-dark-side-to-virtual-companions-arwa-mahdawi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2024\/01\/13\/ai-girlfriends-are-here-but-theres-a-dark-side-to-virtual-companions-arwa-mahdawi\/","title":{"rendered":"AI girlfriends are here \u2013 but there\u2019s a dark side to virtual companions | Arwa Mahdawi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Creators of these chatbots often tout them as a way to combat loneliness, but they can create unhealthy attachments and affect gender roles<\/p>\n<p>It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a computer must be in want of an AI girlfriend. Certainly a lot of enterprising individuals seem to think there\u2019s a lucrative market for digital romance. OpenAI recently <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2024\/jan\/10\/openai-launches-gpt-store-customized-chatbots\">launched its GPT Store<\/a>, where paid ChatGPT users can buy and sell customized chatbots (think Apple\u2019s app store, but for chatbots) \u2013 and the offerings include a large selection of digital girlfriends.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2024\/jan\/13\/ai-girlfriend-chatbots\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Creators of these chatbots often tout them as a way to combat loneliness, but they can create unhealthy attachments and affect gender roles It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a computer must be in want of an AI girlfriend. Certainly a lot of enterprising individuals seem to think &#8230; <a title=\"AI girlfriends are here \u2013 but there\u2019s a dark side to virtual companions | Arwa Mahdawi\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2024\/01\/13\/ai-girlfriends-are-here-but-theres-a-dark-side-to-virtual-companions-arwa-mahdawi\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about AI girlfriends are here \u2013 but there\u2019s a dark side to virtual companions | Arwa Mahdawi\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1337","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1337","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1337"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1337\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}