AI is eating the girlfriends as Americans now spend more hours on AI companion apps than they do on dating apps.
Gen Z is already the loneliest generation ever.
It’s about to get a lot worse.
Peter St Onge, Ph.D.
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2026-07-09 11:30:00 UTC
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