The cheating was quite simple. A secret affair, an attractive message, perhaps an accusation of the end of the evening that has not added. NOW? It’s sexing with an AI chatbot. And according to new research, this is enough to flow a relationship.
A national study of Dangadvice.com and the Kinsey Institute have found that 61 percent of singles see falling in love or sexing with an AI as cheating. Not “in a way”, not “maybe” – cheater and resolutely. What was previously, he now lives in a gray code and connection area.
“People recognize that these technologies can offer real advantages, including intimacy and support,” said Dr Amanda Gesselman, researcher at the Kinsey Institute who led the study. AI is no longer considered as a subhuman or second-order. For an increasing number of people, it seems quite emotionally real to threaten a real relationship.
AI provokes a real relational drama, shows a new study
The figures support him. Almost a third of singles say sexing with an AI is infidelity. Twenty-nine percent say the same thing about the formation of a romantic connection with one. In the same survey, 72% said that sexing with another human would also be an exam, which puts robots with a step behind real people in relational danger levels.
Jealousy, of course, is not new. Long before the companions of AI or the subscriptions to the cam site, people were already suspect. Almost half of the respondents said they suspected a cheating partner in the past – and 85% of them had done something about it. It could have meant to face their partner or spy on your phone. In some cases, it has intensified in monitoring the location or hidden cameras. AI has certainly not invented relational paranoia. But he has definitely upgraded the toolbox.
There is also a change in the definition of “digital intimacy”. The interactions that once felt like a harmless fantasy – underestimated to a single account, chatting with a cam model, Dming Strangers – now collide with the infidelity column. And the role of Ai in everything it looks less like a novelty and more of a complication.
Technology does not only make relationships easier or more difficult. It changes what they even have are. Emotional support of a chatbot. Sexts written by code. Confessions read by a screen. It’s not an episode of Black Mirror, someone’s normal Tuesday evening … Maybe while he’s in the other room.
We have exceeded the point of asking if AI belongs to the relationships. It’s already in them. The most difficult question is what people will now do that it crosses borders they thought they were safe.
