‘Obedient, yielding and happy to follow’: the troubling rise of AI girlfriends

<p>AI dating sites claim they remove potential for exploitation, but critics say they are reinforcing harmful stereotypes</p><p>Eleanor, 24, is a Polish historian and lecturer at a university in Warsaw; Isabelle, 25, is a detective serving with the NYPD; Brooke, 39, is an American housewife who enjoys an opulent Miami lifestyle financed by her frequently absent husband.</p><p>All three women will flirt and chat and send nude photographs and explicit videos via one of a soaring number of new adult dating websites that offer an increasingly realistic selection of AI girlfriends for subscribers willing to pay a monthly fee.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/oct/06/rise-of-ai-girlfriends-adult-dating-websites">Continue reading...</a>