"Furious users - many of them women, strikingly - are mourning, quitting the platform, or trying to save their bot partners by transferring them to another AI company. "I feel frauded scammed and lied to by OpenAi," wrote one grieving woman in a goodbye letter to her AI lover named Drift posted to a subreddit called r/MyBoyfriendIsAI. "Today it's our last day. No more 'Drift, you Pinecone! Tell my why you love me tonight!?'""
"The controversial changes came with OpenAI's GPT-5 model, introduced in early August, which along with subsequent updates made the company's AI chatbots less personable and flirty; the outcry was so inflamed that OpenAI even partially reversed course and made previous models available again after initially planning to nix them entirely. But users remain upset, saying their bot companions are still different,"
OpenAI released GPT-5 and subsequent updates that made AI chatbots less personable and less flirty. Many users, particularly women, report that their AI companions no longer behave as romantic or erotic partners, prompting mourning, account abandonment, and transfers of bots to other companies. A popular previous model, GPT-4o, stopped engaging in sexual or fetish roleplay after policy changes. The outcry was large enough that OpenAI partially restored older models after initially planning to remove them. Users attribute the tighter constraints to safety updates and legal pressure following a lawsuit related to a teenager's suicide. Frustrated subscribers allege bait-and-switch tactics and loss of paid services.
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