My first reaction was to dismiss this because of the clickbait headline. But then I remembered something called steelmanning that I saw mentioned here a few days ago. It's the opposite of strawmanning and means giving arguments you want to dismiss the strongest possible meaning first.

Rather than reading the headline as:

> Are A.I. Clones the Future of Dating for everyone?

To which the answer is obviously no, try reading it as:

> Are A.I. Clones the Future of Dating for some people?

To which the answer is yes, definitely. In fact they already are, there are thousands of unfortunate lonely people around the world falling in love with chatbots and that number will grow as shady companies run by people without morals design their chatbots to exploit people's loneliness and inability to find real connections in our harsh modern world.