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Medical Oddities: Real AI Romance, Where Code Meets Crush

This week the focus is on love and relationships: how it has evolved in society, and it’s effect on the people who live in it.

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  • Teraya Smith

  • February 11, 2026

  • 5 min

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    Cornell researchers developed the Love Attitudes Scale toward AI, the first validated tool to measure romantic love for AI companions.

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    The study found that over one-third of participants reported being in a romantic relationship with AI, highlighting the seriousness of AI romance.

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    A case report described a successful bedside removal of a retained rectal foreign body using a hyperinflated Foley catheter.

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    Investigators linked romantic love to neurobiological changes, including dopamine activation and fluctuations in cortisol and oxytocin levels.

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    An ethnographic study revealed that bubble tea served as a social bonding tool for students, fostering connections and cultural comfort.

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Medical Oddities: Real AI Romance, Where Code Meets Crush

  • by Teraya Smith

  • February 11, 2026

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