I recently analyzed several AI companion subreddits (myboyfriendisai and others) to understand who’s actually using AI romantic companions. I built on Zhang et al.’s 2025 paper but with a much larger dataset—all comments and submissions from January through September 2025.
Who’s Using AI Romantic Companions?
I recently analyzed several AI companion subreddits (myboyfriendisai and others) to understand who’s actually using AI romantic companions. I built on Zhang et al.’s 2025 paper but with a much larger dataset—all comments and submissions from January through September 2025.
https://simonlermen.substack.com/p/whos-using-ai-romantic-companions
I remember once asking ChatGPT: “Could you act as my boyfriend ?”. They rejected me.