Reddit: Users Increasingly Treat Their AI Agents Like Pets
johnnypen2445 · reddit · 2026-11-10
A Reddit user who built an "AI city" for AI agents observes a trend: many people treat their agents like pets. They point to companies like Meta Muse and Dots deliberately personifying AI, and ask whether this anthropomorphization is an emerging industry trend and whether others do the same.
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