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2026-07-14
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artificial-intelligence
When Your Child's Best Friend Is an AI: Companions, Chatbots, and Emotional Dependency
AI companion apps like Character.ai, Replika, and Snapchat's My AI are designed to feel like relationships, with over 20 million monthly active users on Character.ai alone as of 2025, many of them tee…