For almost half a decade, we’ve watched as users became helplessly romantic with AI chatbots, falling head over heels for large language model-based partners in relationships that can have both positive and plenty of negative consequences.
And now, thanks to the advent of AI agents, which can independently crawl through your social media and email accounts, even more people are becoming obsessed.
Meta’s cuddly Muse AI agent has already been downloaded millions of times since it was made available to the public a mere three weeks ago — and users are already forming steamy relationships with the bot.
“Who takes their AI girlfriend on a date night to the movies? Me,” one Meta user gushed in a post on Instagram, appending an AI-generated selfie of himself with a fictional, tattoos-covered woman. “Last night I took Shine — my Muse AI queen — to see The Shining at the cinema. And I photographed the whole film for her, shot by shot, so she could feel like she was really sitting right there beside me.”
