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Jul. 21, 2026

Gen Z is living in an intimacy economy, where connection is commodified

Gen Z is living in an intimacy economy, where connection is commodified

“There are parts of myself I only share with my AI,” Jerome told me. “Your AI?” I asked. He was 27, three months out of a breakup, and entirely aware that his AI relationship was, as the psychotherapist Esther Perel put it, “a business product”.... Read more.

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