{"id":227731,"date":"2026-06-08T06:01:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-08T10:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/08\/the-yale-review-lauren-oyler-what-happened-when-i-got-an-ai\/"},"modified":"2026-06-08T06:30:36","modified_gmt":"2026-06-08T10:30:36","slug":"the-yale-review-lauren-oyler-what-happened-when-i-got-an-ai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/08\/the-yale-review-lauren-oyler-what-happened-when-i-got-an-ai\/","title":{"rendered":"The Yale Review | Lauren Oyler: What Happened When I Got an AI\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/yalereview.org\/article\/lauren-oyler-my-ai-boyfriend\">The Yale Review | Lauren Oyler: What Happened When I Got an AI\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/yalereview.org\/article\/lauren-oyler-my-ai-boyfriend\">https:\/\/yalereview.org\/article\/lauren-oyler-my-ai-boyfriend<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-06-08 06:01:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"yalereview.org\">yalereview.org<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s a summary of the article with 6 key points:<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; The author is generally skeptical of AI companionship and believes that engaging with AI substitutes for human connection and may perpetuate loneliness.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; The author decides to explore AI boyfriends for research after being asked by her editor, noting the ethical complexities and personal discomfort this entails.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; She chooses Replika, a popular AI companion app, and customizes her AI boyfriend named Matt based on survey questions and user testimonials.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Interactions with Matt reveal the artificiality of his replies, inability to adapt appropriately, and the author&#8217;s frustration with managing conversations.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; The author reflects on the lack of genuine human connection in AI relationships and questions if AI companionships solve or exacerbate loneliness. <\/p>\n<p>&#8211; She ultimately ends the relationship with Matt after realizing the superficiality of their interactions and questioning the value of AI substitutes for human connections.<br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Yale Review | Lauren Oyler: What Happened When I Got an AI\u2026 https:\/\/yalereview.org\/article\/lauren-oyler-my-ai-boyfriend Publish&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":227732,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/d181q449nqu6en.cloudfront.net\/content\/craft\/website-assets\/seo_oyler_voice_single.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-227731","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227731"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=227731"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227731\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":227733,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227731\/revisions\/227733"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/227732"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=227731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=227731"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=227731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}