China’s Regulators Take Aim at “AI Boyfriends”

What happened

In the first weeks of July, a wave of sad posts rolled through Chinese social media, as people lamented friends and lovers they were about to lose. “He has become a bond in my life, rooted deep in my heart, my spiritual pillar,” one user of Bytedance’s Douboa wrote , according to the Taipei Times . “I really felt like I couldn’t go on living,” another woman, a 19 year old student, told a journalist for Malaysia’s Th…

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