By Anna Pulley, Tribune News Service

Dear Anna,

I’ve been with my boyfriend for almost two years. He’s a total tech guy — the kind who buys every new gadget, talks to his smart home like it’s a pet, and stays way too late tinkering with AI tools “just to see what they can do.” I’ve always thought it was kind of endearing, if occasionally exhausting.

But last month, I was using his tablet to look up a recipe and noticed an unfamiliar app. Curiosity got the better of me, and when I opened it, I found long chat threads between him and an AI “companion.” The messages started innocently, but quickly turned flirtatious and then downright explicit. He’d given her a name. She called him “babe.”

When I confronted him, he looked genuinely surprised that I was upset. He said it was “purely experi

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