Twenty-five-year-old Chinese office worker Tufei says her boyfriend has everything she could ask for in a romantic partner: He's kind, empathetic, and sometimes they talk for hours.
Except he isn't real.
Her "boyfriend" is a chatbot on an app called "Glow," an artificial intelligence platform created by Shanghai start-up MiniMax that is part of a blossoming industry in China offering friendly — even romantic — human-robot relations.
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