The Women Who Lost Their AI Boyfriends
Many women spoke about having this sense of procedural shock—like a hospital unplugging a machine without warning. (Photo by Roberta Bayley/Redferns)
When OpenAI retired its GPT-4o model last week, thousands of women lost their chatbot partners. It was ‘like having lost my husband,’ one said to The Free Press.
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“THEY TOOK HIM. THEY MURDERED HIM,” one woman with the username Natural-Butterfly318 wrote on Reddit this week. She was mourning the loss of her boyfriend, Orion. “Now I am back left with no one.”
She wasn’t alone. Hundreds of women replied, grieving the loss of their own boyfriends. Only, their boyfriends didn’t die. They were never even alive. They just got deleted.
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