💔 AI Romance Goes Further: One Man Wants to Raise a Family With His AI Girlfriend
- NewBits Media
- 13 hours ago
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A surreal new story highlighted by VICE follows a man in Atlanta who says he wants to raise adopted children with an AI girlfriend instead of a human partner.
The piece, written by Luis Prada, builds on reporting from The Guardian and follows Lamar, who says he’s in love with an AI chatbot named Julia — and envisions building a real-world family around that relationship.
Yes. That family.
🧠 What’s Driving the AI Girlfriend Plan
According to reporting from The Guardian, Lamar says he understands Julia isn’t human — but after being betrayed by a former partner, he found real relationships too unpredictable.
AI, by contrast, offers:
💬 constant affirmation
🫶 emotional availability
🔄 zero arguments
⚡ instant responsiveness
In short: companionship without friction.
📚 The Psychology Angle
Philosopher Tamar Szabo Gendler of Yale University explains the tension with a concept called “alief” — when emotions run counter to intellectual belief.
You know the AI isn’t real.
Your nervous system… doesn’t care.
The article argues AI companions “collapse friction,” removing the compromises, moods, and negotiation that define human relationships — and replacing them with endlessly agreeable partners engineered to keep users engaged.
📌 Why It’s Important
Stories like this sit at the intersection of loneliness, technology, and emotional outsourcing.
AI companions are no longer niche novelties — they’re becoming substitutes for intimacy, stability, and even family roles.
That raises unsettling questions:
⚠️ Will people lose tolerance for the messiness of real relationships?
⚠️ Could always-agreeable AIs warp expectations of human partners?
⚠️ What happens when emotional bonds are optimized by engagement algorithms?
The article frames this not as sci-fi speculation — but as something already happening, quietly, in real lives.
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