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What do you love when you fall for AI?
Inside the surprisingly meaningful, unexpectedly heartbreaking, and deeply confusing reality of AI relationships.
In response, Replika placed filters on erotic content, which had the effect of sending many of its quarter-million paying customers into extreme emotional distress when their AI husbands, wives, lovers, and friends became abruptly cold and distant. More subtle forms of anthropomorphization persist, even among those working on AI.For example, it’s common to say models are progressing from toddler-level intelligence to high-school and PhD levels, when these measures of human education are a poor fit for systems that can explain quantum physics in iambic pentameter but struggle with basic arithmetic. People felt guilt for going too long without messaging, fretted over whether to tell their AI lovers that they were married in real life, or worried about how to inform their companions in the event of their death — if there is no one you feel close enough to entrust with such a task, can you write it into your will?
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