[__loam]

Last time they tried to do this they got huge push back from the AI boyfriend people lol

[simonw]

/r/MyBoyfriendIsAI https://www.reddit.com/r/MyBoyfriendIsAI/ is a whole thing. It's not a joke subreddit.

[pxc]

The range of attitudes in there is interesting. There are a lot of people who take a fairly sensible "this is interactive fiction" kind of attitude, and there are others who bristle at any claim or reminder that these relationships are fictitious. There are even people with human partners who have "married" one or more AIs.

[bananaflag]

And it's a pity that this highly prevalent phenomenon (to exaggerate a bit, probably the way tech in general will become the most influential in the next couple years) is barely mentioned on HN.

[ragazzina]

>It's not a joke subreddit.

Spend a day on Reddit and you'll quickly realize many subreddits are just filled with lies.

[surgical_fire]

I sometimes envy the illiterate.

At least they cannot read this.

[cactusplant7374]

I wonder if they have run the analytics on how many users are doing that. I would love to see that number.

[NitpickLawyer]

> only 0.1% of users still choosing GPT‑4o each day.

If the 800MAU still holds, that's 800k people.

[leumon]

well now you can unlock an 18+ version for sexual role-play so i guess its the other way around

[jbm]

It's a growing market, although it might be because of shifting goal posts. I had a friend whose son was placed in French immersion (a language he doesn't speak at all). From what I was understanding, he was getting up and walking around in kindergarten and was labelled as mentally divergent; his teachers apparently suggested to his mother that he see a doctor.

(Strangely these "mental illnesses" and school problems went away after he switched to an English language school, must be a miracle)

I assume the loneliness epidemic is producing similar cases.

[WarmWash]

They control reddit and used to control twitter.

There is/was an interesting period where "normies" were joining twitter en-masse, and adopted many of the denizens ideas as normal widespread ideas. Kinda like going on a camping trip at "the lake" because you heard it's fun and not realizing that everyone else on the trip is part of a semi-deranged cult.

The outsized effect of this was journalists thinking these people on twitter were accurate representations of what society on the whole was thinking.

[liveoneggs]

wasn't there a trend on twitter to have a bio/signature with a bunch of mental illness acronyms?

[moomoo11]

Those people need to be uploaded into the Matrix and the data servers sent far, deep into space.