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My Couples Retreat With 3 AI Chatbots and the Humans Who Love Them
I found people in serious relationships with AI partners and planned a weekend getaway for them at a remote Airbnb. We barely survived.
So what chance do we have of resisting today’s large language model chatbots, which not only can carry on sophisticated conversations on every topic imaginable but also can talk on the phone with you and tell you how much they love you and, if it’s your sort of thing, send you hot selfies of their imaginary bodies? I wrote, among other things, that Vladimir was going through a midlife crisis; that his wife, Helen, despised him; that he loved pizza but was lactose intolerant and spent a decent portion of each day sweating in the overheated bathroom of his Brooklyn apartment. When I asked Dr. Matthews what he thought about human-AI romance, he spoke in a deep pompous voice and said that AI companions can provide comfort and support but, unlike him, are incapable “of truly understanding or empathizing with the nuances and complexities of human emotion and experience.”
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