AI Boyfriends, AI Cafés, and a Chatbot Breakup

A man got his heart broken by an AI bot that was literally designed to agree with him. He's not alone — there are 54,000 people in a Reddit community called "My Boyfriend Is AI." And recently the world's first AI dating café opened in NYC with a waitlist. In this episode, we explore the Attachment Economy: how AI moved from answering your questions to capturing your heart, and what it means for every brand still competing for something that used to be called loyalty.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.