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I hadn’t heard of that until today. Wild, it seems some people report genuinely feeling deeply in love with the personas they’ve crafted for their chatbots. It seems like an incredibly precarious position to be in to have a deep relationship where you have to perpetually pay a 3rd party company to keep it going, and the company may destroy your “partner” or change their personality at a whim. Very “Black Mirror”.

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There were a lot of that type who were upset when chatGPT was changed to be less personable and sycophantic. Like, openly grieving upset.

This was actually a plot point in Blade Runner 2049.

You are implying here that the financial connection/dependence is the problem. How is this any different than (hetero) men who lose their jobs (or suffer significant financial losses) while in a long term relationship? Their chances of divorce / break-up skyrocket in these cases. To be clear, I'm not here to make women look bad. The inverse/reverse is women getting a long-term illness that requires significant care. The man is many times more likely to leave the relationship due to a sharp fall in (emotional and physical) intimacy.

Final hot take: The AI boyfriend is a trillion dollar product waiting to happen. Many women can be happy without physical intimacy, only getting emotional intimacy from a chatbot.

Funny. Artificial Boyfriends were a software problem, while Artificial Girlfriends are more of a hardware issue.

In a truly depressing thread, this made me laugh.

And think.

Thank you

A slight non-sequitur, but I always hate when people talk about the increase in a "chance". It's extremely not useful contextually. A "4x more likely statement" can mean it changes something from a 1/1000 chance to a 4/1000 chance, or it can mean it's now a certainty if the beginning rate was a 1/4 chance. The absolute measures need to be included if you're going to use relative measures.

Sorry for not answering the question, I find it hard because there are so many differences it's hard to choose where to start and how to put it into words. To begin with one is the actions of someone in the relationship, the other is the actions of a corporation that owns one half of the relationship. There's differing expectations of behavior and power and etc.

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