Many women have 'lost' their boyfriends because of OpenAI's GPT-5 (opens in new tab)

Not your weights => not your waifu

Looks crazy but this isn't really anything new. Before AI these people became obsessed with fictional characters from romantic novels, movies, or videogames and treated them as their partners and fantasized about them. Now it's more interactive with AI but still the same thing.

The overuse of emojis in the comments makes this whole thing feel a bit off to me. Like someone faking interactions and trying too hard to make them look convincing

Seems wild unless you check out the state of the modern book market. That kind of verbal pornography is everywhere, women can't seem to get enough of it. 4o isn't even chatting in those screenshots, it's writing fiction in which events are described in the past tense, the sort of "a sexy vampire violated me in his crypt but i liked it" fiction that some women seem to be addicted to. Very sad that she calls this a husband :(

What really is wild though is that George Orwell predicted this in 1948. Julia was 26 years old and worked in the book writing department, where novel writing machines spat out books at an industrial scale.

I don't buy it. Feels like a psyop.

Oh my. This subreddit makes me sad.

Applying Occam's and Hanlon's razor, this is fake.

It's not a joke in the sense that the LLMs are just writing what they've been promoted to write...

Apply critical thinking skills... this has to be fake.

Or pay 20 bucks to have access to the old version. I guess the version picker is not available to free users?

No you misunderstood

The "boyfriends" it is talking about is the IA

These are women who are in a "relationship" with gpt o4+ something, and now that this model is removed, they "lost" their partner

Those are sick people in the first place

I’m with you this is some sort of material for journalists to run with and create a headline.

Let’s make sure we link to these comments when the articles finally run.