Is AI the way for our young people to learn about relationships?
By Rachel Mortimer | Posted: Tuesday October 21, 2025
This latest article from Safe on Social is an important read for parents, and possibly even more important for parents with children struggling to form relationships and connections.
What Erotica for ChatGPT really signals about AI's direction
The article is provocative with statements such as 'who's teaching our children about love now?' Based on the popularity of chatbots such as Character.ai, some people are lonely, wanting company, someone to listen to them and now there are moves to 'loosen' generative AI models to coach people in relationships. Yet AI is incapable of understanding the emotions and comments that it can 'coach' or console the person interacting with the AI model.
It is important in our quickly evolving technology that we know how to keep our children safe. We have our cybersafety hub through Linewize who recently published an article on How children are really using AI tools and last week's newsletter had links to parent webinars that Netsafe run to support you.