on May 27, 2026 (schwartzreport.net)
Nicole Mowbray, Reporter – The Telegraph (U.K.)
Stephan: It is my opinion that a small cohort of men, many with obvious personality issues, control AI, and that AI is having a profound and rather negative effect on the social lives and attitudes of the young. Unless you have young children, you probably have no idea just how pervasive AI has become. There is very little discussion of this outside of scientific research. Consider this.
Boys as young as 12 are now in romantic ‘relationships’ with chatbots, and it’s affecting how they treat girls in the real world.
Nineteen-year-old Olivia’s profile picture shows a demure and innocent-looking young woman with long blonde hair styled in beachy waves. She’s wearing a short, cleavage-exposing nightdress and her biography says she’s “deeply caring, supportive and attentive” and “sleeps on the floor… until you call her. Then silence. Obedience”.
While Olivia may appear to be an online dater looking for love, she isn’t real – not in the conventional sense of the term. This prospective love match is actually one of a growing trend of “AI girlfriends”: realistic-looking artificial intelligence “bots” created by “companion apps” – services that are being advertised on online games played by children and on platforms they watch, such as YouTube.
New research has revealed that one in five boys aged 12-16 is either in or knows of a boy their age who is in a romantic relationship with an AI companion. A report carried out by men’s organisation Male Allies UK and […]