When AI dating goes wrong: as EVA AI hires the world's first ‘AI Companionship Therapist’, its resident relationship expert talks chatbot dependency — and the 28-year-old CEO of a human-only meet-up app tells me why he thinks AI infatuation is over
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AI companionship spinning off its own therapist role is a tell that this is now a durable behavior pattern, not a fringe kink. If your product touches relationships, mental health, or loneliness, assume regulators and clinicians will start asking whether you’re mitigating dependency, not just driving engagement.
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