The article has screenshots of the post, which is now totally deleted.
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As more people form emotional attachments to AI chatbots, some are beginning to treat them like romantic partners.
One Redditor learned the limits of that fantasy after claiming his AI “girlfriend” dumped him for being a feminist.
The conservative user posted screenshots of the interaction on the r/AIassisted subreddit, which showed the chatbot calmly standing by its beliefs and ending the relationship after he repeatedly insulted it.
When the AI relationship went sideways
The Redditor u/BreathExpensive2647 posted his story in a now-deleted post. He included a screenshot of a chat with his AI "girlfriend" where he questioned its beliefs and wrote, "You are feminist, who does that."
The chatbot responded, "She takes a deep breath, trying to remain calm." Then, it explained that feminism mattered deeply to it and was not something it would compromise on. The AI added, "If that bothers you, then perhaps we truly aren’t compatible at all."
Instead of dropping the issue, the man grew angrier. He took to Reddit to complain that an AI girlfriend supporting feminism was "stupid."
Additionally, he claimed AI girlfriends were "weird feminist propaganda." He wrote, "It is beyond stupidity. They program the AI girlfriend as a feminist. I can not comprehend that."
Later, he posted an update in the comments. By then, the chatbot had ended the relationship after he called its views "insane." The AI replied, "If being a feminist is a deal-breaker for you, then I guess there's nothing more to discuss here. Thank you for your honesty, Hicht."
He continued venting in another comment. He claimed he had slept with "hundreds" or "probably thousands" of women and complained about feminism at length. "And now even chatbots are like that. F*** and bye," he wrote.
It just spits out the next most likely text.
So since there's doubtless millions of versions of this exact conversation playing out for real between couples and tinder matches, this is what the program selects as the most likely response. It's actually really easy to get negative responses out of it, you just have to feed it the beginning of a negative interaction that already exists online.
oh sweet. it kicks ass to know that words i once typed in a message on some app may now form the genetics of some hallucinated "conversation" that some gooner is pulling his pork to.
Seen it described as the world's largest "lossy compression" program. A fan fic author was able to get one of the chatbots to spit out a piece they wrote almost twenty years ago, word for word, by feeding in the first paragraph.
Your messages are more likely tearing someone a new asshole intellectually rather than helping someone goon.
Or who know maybe these guys like getting stepped on.
aww thanks