According to a report by Vision Times (视觉志), with the widespread adoption of AI chat tools like Doubao, DeepSeek, and Qwen, many young Chinese are now using them to compose love messages, apology texts, and even dating conversations. The phenomenon of “AI-assisted chatting” has spread from personal use to the dating market, spawning a series of “epic fail” moments: a guy who used Doubao throughout a date accidentally sent the raw conversation he had with the AI to his date; a boyfriend’s AI-written apology was instantly spotted by his girlfriend—because in three years of apologizing, he had never once written a line like “I hear how you feel”; and a woman in Chengdu discovered that her husband had been copying her complaints into Doubao and then forwarding the AI’s replies to her word for word. The article also delves into the battlefield of parental nagging about marriage—parents now use AI to polish their persuasion, leaving their children “unable to find a point to refute,” while the children fight fire with fire, both sides sending AI-generated replies to each other in an emotional tug-of-war.
One detail that resonated with many readers was a mother who sent her daughter an AI-generated message of concern, but accidentally included the original prompt to Doubao at the end, forgetting to delete it. Instead of finding it funny, netizens were deeply touched—not by the AI-generated text, but by the mother’s earnest, clumsy efforts: repeatedly inputting her daughter’s situation into an unfamiliar app, trying to say something she struggled to express naturally. The article reflects that AI tools in close relationships are less about “replacement” and more like a translator for a generation that finds it hard to articulate emotions, turning vague feelings into complete sentences.