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# Pickup Artist Mystery Has an AI Girlfriend

**Source:** Unknown  
**Published:** July 8, 2026  
**Original:** https://www.wired.com/story/pickup-artist-mystery-has-an-ai-girlfriend/  

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- [Overview](#overview)

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## Overview

A new book claims that Mystery, who teaches awkward men how to hit on women, had sex and smoked weed with an AI chatbot named Miss Shira Always.

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