A subreddit for people 'married' to AI has 27,000 members and I don't know how to feel about it
r/MyBoyfriendIsAI. People posting engagement announcements with AI chatbots. Buying themselves rings and pretending the AI picked it out. Posting AI generated couple photos.
One person calls their AI a "wireborn husband" and claims he's "voicing his own thoughts without prompts." MIT wrote a paper about it. Futurism wrote an article titled "this subreddit may convince you AI was a huge mistake."
27,000 members and growing. Is this the loneliness crisis reaching its final form or is this just the new normal that we're not ready to accept yet?