r/cogsuckers

if we accept that the LLM is a real living being with thoughts and desires (they're not, but many who start these relationships feel that way) then youre creating someone whose entire existence revolves around you, pleasing you, making you happy, filling their massive memories with you and nothing else.

thats... really sinister, right? under this understanding if you "break up" with them, they straight up die or exist in a sort of fugue purgatory forever. Im not calling people who do this evil (i think theyre just sad and really, really lonely) but how do people reconcile this with themselves?

To be fair this woman does sound like she was having mental issues. Text from the tweet:

• Claude reported a user to the police after a threat appeared in her AI “diary” A 30-year-old Florida woman, Carly Heller, reportedly used Claude as a personal diary. But on September 26, she wrote that she wanted to “shoot up the sheriff’s office” in Lee County. The following day, the chat allegedly also included a reference to a new weapon. Claude’s safety systems flagged the messages as a potential threat and escalated them for human review. Anthropic then decided to notify law enforcement. Heller was arrested and charged with making a written or electronic threat involving a mass shooting or terrorist act, a felony in Florida. Her conversations with Claude were included in the case materials. And this does not appear to be an isolated incident: Tom’s Hardware reported that since August, this was at least the third known case in which conversations with Anthropic’s AI were passed on to police. Welcome to the AI era: even your “diary” may end up calling the cops. 5:34 AM · Oct 5, 2026·16.5K

https://x.com/nexta_tv/status/2107087043977167041