A man got his heart broken by an AI bot that was literally designed to agree with him. He's not alone — there are 54,000 people in a Reddit community called "My Boyfriend Is AI." And recently the world's first AI dating café opened in NYC with a waitlist. In this episode, we explore the Attachment Economy: how AI moved from answering your questions to capturing your heart, and what it means for every brand still competing for something that used to be called loyalty.

<p>A man got his heart broken by an AI bot that was literally designed to agree with him. He's not alone &mdash; there are 54,000 people in a Reddit community called "My Boyfriend Is AI." And recently the world's first AI dating caf&eacute; opened in NYC with a waitlist. In this episode, we explore the Attachment Economy: how AI moved from answering your questions to capturing your heart, and what it means for every brand still competing for something that used to be called loyalty.</p>

So Get This - host John Gerzema and Libby Rodney (The Harris Poll) names the cultural shifts hiding in plain sight—the strange, data-backed behavioral changes that reveal what people want right now, even when they can't articulate it themselves. It's part dinner-party ammunition, part business wake-up call.

<p>So Get This - host John Gerzema and Libby Rodney (The Harris Poll) names the cultural shifts hiding in plain sight&mdash;the strange, data-backed behavioral changes that reveal what people want right now, even when they can't articulate it themselves. It's part dinner-party ammunition, part business wake-up call.</p>

So, Get This

AI Boyfriends, AI Cafés, and a Chatbot Breakup

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