Are AI Chatbots Changing How We Talk About Cheating?
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The article discusses the ethics of engaging in flirtatious interactions with AI chatbots within committed relationships. As AI companions gain popularity, a significant percentage of individuals in relationships with these 'virtual lovers' are also involved with human partners. This trend highlights a growing concern about loneliness and emotional isolation. Experts suggest that AI relationships are a new phenomenon that requires a re-evaluation of traditional relationship definitions and boundaries, indicating a need for society to understand these complex dynamics.
If you're in a committed and monogamous relationship and you begin sending flirty or explicit texts to another person, most people would consider that...if not outright cheating, then certainly cheating-adjacent.
Flor(Gill) looked at the growth of AI apps that offer a version of interpersonal connection. Among the most striking statistics cited in Gill's reporting is that 41.6% of people who consider themselves in a relationship with an AI are also in a relationship with another person.
Coupling with AI [was] a new category of relationship that we do not yet have a definition for.
It’s possible that AI companions - romantic or otherwise - speak to a larger issue of loneliness.
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