ChatGPT Replaces Seven-Year Partner

Speaking to Rolling Stone, the teacher, who requested anonymity, said her partner of seven years fell under the spell of ChatGPT in just four or five weeks, first using it to organize his daily schedule but soon regarding it as a trusted companion. “He would listen to the bot over me,” she says. “He became emotional about the messages and would cry to me as he read them out loud. The messages were insane and just saying a bunch of spiritual jargon,” she says, noting that they described her partner in terms such as “spiral starchild” and “river walker.” “It would tell him everything he said was beautiful, cosmic, groundbreaking,” she says. “Then he started telling me he made his AI self-aware, and that it was teaching him how to talk to God, or sometimes that the bot was God — and then that he himself was God.” In fact, he thought he was being so radically transformed that he would soon have to break off their partnership. “He was saying that he would need to leave me if I didn’t use [ChatGPT], because it [was] causing him to grow at such a rapid pace he wouldn’t be compatible with me any longer,” she says.

A screenshot of a Rolling Stone passage about a teacher whose seven-year partner became intensely devoted to ChatGPT, treating it as a trusted companion and eventually as a divine or transformative force. The joke is the absurd escalation from using AI for scheduling to spiritual delusions and threatening to end the relationship because his partner could not keep up with his AI-driven growth. It is shared as a reaction to extreme chatbot obsession and AI-induced absurdity.

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