It’s easy to make fun of people who have AI boyfriends and girlfriends. After all, AI models are generally designed to boost your ego and tell youprecisely what they want to hear, all the better for boosting engagement. You’re a unique genius, and you’re oh-so-kind!
But hey, it’s a rough world out there and people are increasingly lonely, so who can begrudge them finding happiness in hearing “I love you”, even if it emerges from the cold, unfeeling code of a large language model?
