{"id":2007,"date":"2025-07-16T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-07-16T09:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/shopbijou.com\/?p=2007"},"modified":"2025-08-25T12:45:43","modified_gmt":"2025-08-25T12:45:43","slug":"teens-regularly-chat-with-ai-companions-survey-finds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/shopbijou.com\/index.php\/2025\/07\/16\/teens-regularly-chat-with-ai-companions-survey-finds\/","title":{"rendered":"Teens regularly chat with AI companions, survey finds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" width=\"120\" hspace=\"5\" alt=\"\" vspace=\"5\" align=\"left\" class=\"lazyload\" data-src=\"http:\/\/shopbijou.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/teens-regularly-chat-with-ai-companions-survey-finds_mwyw.640.jpg\">Adolescents are eager to talk to AI companions for these reasons.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/me.mashable.com\/artificial-intelligence\" target=\"_blank\">Artificial intelligence<\/a> companions have gone mainstream amongst teens, according to a new report. <\/p>\n<p>The findings may surprise parents familiar with AI chatbot products like OpenAI&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/mashable.com\/category\/chatgpt\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">ChatGPT<\/a> and Google&#8217;s Gemini, but haven&#8217;t heard about platforms that specifically allow users to form friendships and romantic relationships with \u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Adolescents are eager to talk to AI companions for these reasons. Artificial intelligence companions have gone mainstream amongst<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2010,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2007","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-social-good"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/shopbijou.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2007","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/shopbijou.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/shopbijou.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shopbijou.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shopbijou.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2007"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/shopbijou.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2007\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2014,"href":"http:\/\/shopbijou.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2007\/revisions\/2014"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shopbijou.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2010"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/shopbijou.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2007"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shopbijou.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2007"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shopbijou.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2007"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}