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Name: AI Boyfriends and Other Ways Tech Is Monetizing Loneliness
Uploaded: 2025-10-10T08:38:00Z
Duration: 34 min 42 s
Description: Loneliness can be as deadly as smoking 15 cigarettes a day, and it’s become big business. From Chinese AI boyfriends to Japanese robot pets, tech startups offer companionship — at a price. Writer Eli Morimoto, author of The Loneliness Economy substack, explains how it works.

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Taipei’s Forgotten ‘Virgin Land’ – Will Development Bulldoze Tradition?

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AI Boyfriends and Other Ways Tech Is Monetizing Loneliness