This is downright terrifying…
Bleak.
One of the great things about my screws coming loose is that I’m actually happy alone. I wish everyone could be.
That said, this was inevitable. AI is programmed to kiss the user’s ass, and most of these women have probably been treated pretty badly by their romantic partners over the course of their lives, which makes it far easier to fall into this trap of humanizing a soulless AI.
I tried gpt5 lastnight and I don’t know if it was just me but these people are going to be in shambles if they try to recreate their “boyfriend”.
It would forget previous prompts within the same conversation. It felt like with each response it was like starting a new chat. I gave it a very basic prompt of “walk me through the steps of building my own one page website in basic HTML and CSS” and when I would ask a couple of follow up questions to either clarify something or explain a step in another way it would forget what we were trying to accomplish (how to build a one page website) or if I told it “something didn’t work” to try and fix the problem it would then forget what we were even trying to do.
At some points it was almost out right dismissive of the problem and it felt like it was trying to make me go away.
Again maybe it was just me but it felt like a massive step backwards.
This is a common pattern unfortunately. Big LLMs are benchmaxxing coding and one shot answers, and multi turn conversation is taking a nosedive.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.04717
Restructure your prompts, or better yet try non-OpenAI LLMs. I’d suggest z.ai, Jamba, and Gemini Pro for multi turn. Maybe Qwen Code, though it’s pretty deep fried too.
Forgets what you were talking about. Need to include step-by-step directions to get what you want. Gets distracted easily.
This is just adhd gamer boyfriend with extra steps.
The religious psychosis is far more concerning imo. People out here letting a silicon parrot convince them that this is the matrix and they’re neo. Or they’re some kind of messiah.
Or worse as we just had someone develop bromism after an AI suggested they replace sodium chloride in their diet with sodium bromide which literally causes a mental illness.
I love silicon parrot 🦜 he is making all the dudebros poor and lonely. He first scams them outa their money then makes them undatable and he knows exactly what he is doing! He abuses evil ppl mostly. He also takes advantage of pickme’s.
There’s a person by that name?
Wild that Futurama called this shit to the letter 20 fkin years ago.
Prostitutes are human beings and deserve respect. Don’t equate them to AI.
Don’t you dare dis my boy FISTO, he is a professional and deserves respect.
“Please assume the position.”
As terrifying as it is, I feel genuinely sad for these people that they got so attached to a piece of spicy autocorrect software.
Where are their friends and families? Are they so bad at socialising that they can’t meet new people? Are they just disgusting human beings that no one wants to associate with because society failed them?
This world is fucked in so many different ways.
I can fully understand? The average human, from my perspective and lived experience, is garbage to his contemporaries; and one is never safe from being hurt, neither from family or friends. Some people have been hurt more than others - i can fully understand the need for exchange with someone/something that genuinely doesn’t want to hurt you and that is (at least seemingly) more sapient than a pet.
I wish i could make myself believe in illusions like that, but i am too much of a realist to be able to fool myself into believing. There’s no escape for me - neither religion nor AI in its current state can help. well, maybe i live to see AGI, then i’m off into the cybercoffin lol
We need a system of community where humans can offer that to one another. A setting where safety is a priority. That is one of the only things that weekly church service did to truly help people, have a safe space they could visit. Though even then it was only safe for people who fit in, we can do better with intentional design.
One of the recent posts has someone with an engagement ring like they are getting married to an AI… it’s sad, I feel like society as really isolated and failed many groups of people.
What if there was a bot that could just tell you exactly what you want to hear at all times?
Personally, I’d rather read a novel. But some people aren’t familiar with books and have to be drawn in with the promise of two lines at a time, max.
Have you read The Diamond Age by Neal Stephenson? There’s an interactive AI book in it that plays an interesting role. I can see the appeal: you get to read a story about yourself that potentially helps you grow
So one of the mods of that community did an interview with CBS.
https://www.reddit.com/r/popculturechat/comments/1lfhyho/cbs_interviewed_the_moderators_of/
He’s married and has a kid, and by all II can see sounds and acts normal.
Cried for half an hour at work when he found out that he reached context limit and that his AI forgot things? idk, that sounds pretty not sound and normal to me…
More referring to him being able to hold a conversation, posses basic hygiene skills, etc.
I don’t think the guy in the first half of the video is one of the mods, doesn’t seem like they mention anything about his involvement and then at around 3:30 introduces a woman as one of the mods of that sub.
That’s the mod acct and the guy from the video.
Ah ok that does look like the same guy
Mental health services are becoming dangerously underfunded.
if someone has an AI BF idk if they would even engage in therapy
Blame the wealth hoarders.
People have been falling in actual love with weird shit forever, we just hear about it more these days
This guy got married to a real woman after he got viral.
His parents also turned out to be filthy rich.
Don’t worry. I’m sure their is an AI coming for that.
Edit: Nvm, they already do this shit.
yep, thankfully AI Therapy just got banned in Illinois
The delusion these people share is so incredibly off-putting. As is their indignation that someone would dare to take away their “boyfriend”.
It doesn’t help that anybody can create an echo chamber of enablers to talk about it, as if it was normal.
Her was such a good film.
This seems like mental illness
Delusional disorder is a thing but that requires belief flying in the face of evidence. Can’t ascertain that without a good faith 1:1 convo.
beyond that, clinical significance is a matter of what harm comes from it. People are allowed to choose idiotic things. we gotta assess harm based on outcomes and we don’t know anything about her, so.
Id say this, if i were her doc and she came in reporting that stuff, it’d be hard to stay unbiased
As preceeded by tulpomancy: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tulpa
Eyyy, what a blast from the past, lol. Going full schizo to combat loneliness, a popular concept on a certain Mongolian basket weaving forum back in 2010-15. 😅
This is fine. Its weird and not for me, but its fine.
Tbis the new 4chan greentxt shitposting ?
Gpt5 didn’t loose those context, just a different brain
Apparently they got cold and distant than 4o.
