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by gus_massa 31 days ago
> "New research has revealed that one in five boys aged 12-16 is either in or knows of a boy their age who is in a romantic relationship with an AI companion."

Let's say a class has 25 students, and magically everyone know that other students uses a romantic AI companion. So 1/5 of the class has one of them, so it's like 1/125 persons = 0.8%. It's hard to get a good statistic from this numbers, it's not clear that everyone in a class know what the other do and that the wall between classes is so high that nobody else know. In conclusion, "knows of a boy their age" is a crappy criteria.