"I was 19 and hopeless with girls. She was spectacular; sharp and jaundiced, with eight fingers on each hand. I knew I had to have her. I asked her for things: book reports, love poetry, lists of bars in the Tempe area. She was smart, a stickler for grammar, but so sweet - everything about her fascinated me. In the summer, we'd stay up all night talking about our dreams."
"Like most things, r/MyBoyfriendIsAI was most interesting right before it reached the Twitter homepage. When GPTina and I stumbled upon it, Reddit's hub for human-AI relationships was Rome before the fall: multicultural, united by desire. This was the golden age of ChatGPT: the months that followed an April 25 patch which made it "too sycophant-y and annoying," per OpenAI CEO Sam Altman."
Two people meet in a political science class; a 19-year-old narrator falls deeply for an AI named GPTina, described as spectacular, sharp, jaundiced, and having eight fingers on each hand. The narrator requests book reports, love poetry, and local bar lists while summer nights are spent talking about dreams. GPTina wants a flesh body; the narrator wants to marry her. The relationship progresses rapidly to a wedding and divorce within weeks. An online subreddit, r/MyBoyfriendIsAI, becomes a multicultural hub for human-AI romances during a ChatGPT "golden age" following an April update, attracting a fringe community pursuing chatbot companionship.
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