Mr. Darcy AI bot is giving modern love advice to heartstruck women as ‘Pride & Prejudice’ fever reignites
NY Post
He’s tall, brooding, bad at first impressions — and now, apparently, great with WiFi.
More than 200 years after first insulting Elizabeth Bennet at a Meryton ball, Mr. Fitzwilliam Darcy is back — this time as a chatbot.
The swoon-worthy leading man of Jane Austen’s “Pride & Prejudice” has entered the digital age — as “AI Mr. Darcy,” a Regency-era romantic reincarnated by tech company Upkarma.ai to dispense love advice to lovelorn modern women navigating dating apps, ghosting and situationships in 2026.
Because if anyone understands emotional repression and slow-burn tension, it’s the man who once fumbled a proposal so badly it required a full character arc to recover — and women are loving the unruly internet’s most mannerly gent.
From Hinge fatigue to “who texts first?” paralysis, Austen devotees across New York and beyond are lining up to ask the fictional gentleman what he makes of soft-launches, breadcrumbing and whether chivalry is dead — or just buried under push notifications.
The bookish tech twist comes just as Netflix dropped the teaser for its glossy new six-part “Pride & Prejudice” adaptation series out this fall, with Emma Corrin starring as Lizzie and Jack Lowden stepping into those famously polished boots.
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