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Thursday, March 14, 2024

Teens and AI: Virtual Girlfriend and Virtual Boyfriend Bots

Teens and AI: Virtual Girlfriend and Virtual Boyfriend Bots - Cyberbullying Research Center 

A school counselor who works in a private school in California recently emailed me to ask for help as it relates to students and the misuse of specific AI bots. Her concerns, though, did not surround general purpose AI bots like Snapchat’s My AI or Microsoft’s CoPilot, but rather those that are specifically used as virtual girlfriends and virtual boyfriends. I thought it would be instructive for other youth-serving professionals (and parents and guardians) to make sure they were up to speed on the positives and negatives of these in-app “software agents” or “artificial conversational entities.” So, let’s dive right in!

Read more: 
https://cyberbullying.org/teens-ai-virtual-girlfriend-boyfriend-bots

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