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Chinese users of AI companions bereft after government tightens regulations

Posted 8/10/26

Li Linlin cried for days after losing her AI boyfriend. She exchanged about 700,000 words with him over two years and never got to say goodbye when he was eliminated by ByteDance, the developer of …

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