Etiquette
How to talk about, and to, an AI companion — with partners, with friends, and with the app itself.
AI girlfriend app screenshots: where they end up
The chat lives behind a login and often a PIN. The screenshot of it is an ordinary photo in your camera roll, which has a completely different set of rules.
Telling a partner about an AI girlfriend app
Most people rehearse a defence of the whole category, then get asked three concrete questions instead. Here are the three answers, and where to look them up first.
AI girlfriend app content filter: when it says no
The character goes flat, gives you a stock line and changes the subject. Before you spend half an hour arguing with it, work out which of three things just happened.
What not to tell an AI girlfriend app
Most advice about what to keep out of a companion app is about protecting yourself. The sentences worth more care are the ones about everyone else in your life, because they are the only ones nobody else can take back.
How to talk to an AI girlfriend app: the half you write
Good conversations with a companion app are not a matter of manners. Everything you type is read back on the next turn, which makes your half the strongest control you have.
AI girlfriend app etiquette: saying no to the upsell
The awkward moment nobody warns first-timers about is the one where the paywall arrives inside the conversation. How to tell the three kinds of ask apart, and how to refuse one.
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