China's Youth Use AI to Recreate Digital Versions of Ex-Partners

Beijing. A new and strange trend has emerged among China's youth, where people are using artificial intelligence (AI) to refresh memories of their ex-boyfriends or girlfriends.

Young people have started creating digital versions of their old boyfriends/girlfriends using a special AI model. For this, an open-source module called 'Ex-Skill' is becoming very popular.

With the help of this technology, users upload chat history, photos, social media posts, and other old memories of their past relationships. Based on this content and old details, AI creates an exact digital replica of that ex-boyfriend or girlfriend.

This module transfers old memories from the biological brain to a digital neural network. The AI 'Ex' created in this way can perfectly imitate the speaking style, catchphrases, and even small linguistic mannerisms like a real person.

On Github, its developers have clarified that this project is intended solely for personal introspection and healing emotional wounds. They have warned against using it to harass, spy on, or violate the privacy of others. However, its growing popularity has sparked a heated debate about personal privacy, emotional dependency, and the limits of AI in romantic relationships.

Although this technology was introduced with the aim of helping people move on from past failed relationships, it has added new concerns to society. Some experts say that such emotional intimacy with AI pushes people away from the real world and hinders them from forming new and healthy relationships with real people.

On the other hand, complaints have also increased about serious privacy violations by putting private conversations and photos of a person into an AI model without their consent. Despite this widespread criticism, many users have given positive feedback about the help they received from this technology.

Some have said they felt relieved by telling their AI ex-boyfriend things they couldn't say in real life, while others have said that after talking to the AI, they realized their ex-boyfriend or girlfriend wasn't that special after all, and they found freedom from the old relationship.

One user wrote on social media, 'I was able to say everything I had suppressed and hesitated to say to the AI version, which gave me a lot of peace.'