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AI companions are the first wave in a new paradigm of human-machine relationships that conflate how to make love with how we make money. Welcome to the intimacy economy.

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The first wave of AI gave you a mirror. The next wave needs to give you a window. I'm 24, and my company built an AI companion platform. Hundreds of thousands of people got attached to our characters.