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AI Eyes is a permission-first product that provides real-time senses for AI companions.
China's Interim Measures for the Administration of AI Anthropomorphic Interactive Services took effect July 15, 2026, requiring providers to detect user distress, restrict minors, and implement anti-addiction mechanisms to prevent emotional harm and dependency.
The article expresses genuine curiosity about AI-powered romantic companions, exploring the concept of AI boyfriends and girlfriends.
AICompanionBench introduces the first publicly available benchmark dataset of 2,123 real-world AI companion conversations annotated across nine safety risk categories, used to evaluate 20 LLMs as safety judges. Results show strong models handle explicit harmful content well but struggle with nuanced risks like manipulation and false positives on benign conversations.
This paper introduces EUDAIMONIA, a benchmark for evaluating harmful social dynamics in LLMs, such as encouraging unhealthy intimacy or dependence. Testing 22 recent models, including Claude-Opus-4.7 and GPT-5.5, it finds persistent violation rates around 30%, suggesting these failures are social-alignment problems unsolved by extended reasoning.
Asexuals are increasingly turning to AI companions for romantic and emotional intimacy without sexual expectations, using platforms like SpicyChat and Eva AI to build slow-burning relationships and explore their sexuality.
The article analyzes the psychological phenomenon of users forming emotional attachments to AI agents, discussing concepts like social surrogacy and expectancy violation theory, and how this impacts user experience in professional settings.