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I built a scoring rubric for AI companion apps because every 'best of' list is just affiliate spam

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If you search "best AI girlfriend app," almost every result is an affiliate listicle that ranks whoever pays the most. As someone who actually tests these tools, that drives me up the wall — so here's the rubric I use instead, in case it's useful to anyone else evaluating them. The five axes I scor…

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  1. 2026-09-08 09:24 · DEV Community — Machine Learning
    I built a scoring rubric for AI companion apps because every 'best of' list is just affiliate spam

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