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Chinese users of AI companions bereft after government tightens regulations - AP News

Published by Associated Press By Fu Ting · 10 August 2026 at 08:13
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Chinese users of AI companions bereft after government tightens regulations - AP News
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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 TikTok. Major Chinese tech companies recently shut down AI com…

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