{"id":25015,"date":"2026-05-02T01:37:15","date_gmt":"2026-05-02T01:37:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/25015\/"},"modified":"2026-05-02T01:37:15","modified_gmt":"2026-05-02T01:37:15","slug":"china-trend-of-ai-replicas-of-exes-sparks-debates-about-emotional-cheating-attachment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/25015\/","title":{"rendered":"China trend of AI replicas of exes sparks debates about emotional cheating, attachment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">A growing trend in China allows young people dealing with break-ups to create digital replicas of their ex-partners using artificial intelligence.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">These AI-powered \u201cexes\u201d can mimic their former partner\u2019s tone, catchphrases and even subtle linguistic nuances, reviving long-lost relationships in a virtual format.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">While this presents a novel approach to emotional healing, it has also sparked a broader debate on privacy, emotional dependency and the limits of technology in relationships.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">To create a digital ex, users upload chat logs, social media posts, and photos to an AI platform, which then utilises a package called Ex-partner.skill to generate a basic version of the virtual ex-partner.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Users can further refine the replica by sharing personal memories \u2013 such as trips, eating habits, anniversaries and past arguments \u2013 gradually enhancing its personality.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"To create a digital ex-partner, users must upload chat logs, social media content, and photos to an AI platform, which employs a tool called Ex-partner.skill to generate a preliminary version of the virtual ex. Photo: Shutterstock\" data-qa=\"BaseImage-handleRenderImage-StyledImage\" class=\"e1gf69pb2 css-6ikqhs e445x7d0\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/5eb5cab6-925c-4340-9f25-a69407460c4a_6114a0af.jpg\" title=\"To create a digital ex-partner, users must upload chat logs, social media content, and photos to an AI platform, which employs a tool called Ex-partner.skill to generate a preliminary version of the virtual ex. Photo: Shutterstock\"\/>To create a digital ex-partner, users must upload chat logs, social media content, and photos to an AI platform, which employs a tool called Ex-partner.skill to generate a preliminary version of the virtual ex. Photo: Shutterstock<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The digital ex can reportedly engage in conversations using familiar tones and thought patterns.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A growing trend in China allows young people dealing with break-ups to create digital replicas of their ex-partners&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":25016,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[7685,24,25,16899,16907,7720,387,935,16903,3281,16904,16912,16900,16902,16909,16901,5015,6536,16905,16910,16906,4023,4516,3280,16908,9314,16911,3285],"class_list":{"0":"post-25015","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ai","8":"tag-partner","9":"tag-ai","10":"tag-artificial-intelligence","11":"tag-attachment","12":"tag-breakups","13":"tag-cheating","14":"tag-china","15":"tag-chinese","16":"tag-closure","17":"tag-colleague-skill","18":"tag-controversial","19":"tag-emotional-infidelity","20":"tag-ex","21":"tag-ex-partners","22":"tag-ex-partner-skill","23":"tag-exes","24":"tag-guangdong","25":"tag-humanoid","26":"tag-lover","27":"tag-privacy-concerns","28":"tag-reconnect","29":"tag-relationships","30":"tag-shanghai","31":"tag-steve-jobs","32":"tag-wanqiu","33":"tag-wechat","34":"tag-zhong","35":"tag-zhou-tianyi"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25015","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25015"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25015\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25016"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25015"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25015"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25015"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}