Survey: 50.5% of Americans Say an AI Romance Can Count as Cheating
Slow_Yogurtcloset110 · reddit · 2026-09-05
A survey covered by AI News found 50.5% of Americans say a romance with AI can count as cheating, making human-AI relationships a real social question.
The poster questions methodology: data came from the SurveyMonkey Audience panel, whose representativeness of the broader US population is debatable. Still an interesting data point on attitudes toward AI intimacy.
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