Teenage girls are using an unrestrained version of ChatGPT called “DAN” to create AI boyfriends, having conversations and even developing relationships with the advanced language model. Videos documenting these interactions have gone viral on TikTok, with some users providing tutorials on how to access DAN’s more unrestricted capabilities. While some view these AI boyfriends as harmless fun or even appealing alternatives to human partners, others express concern about the implications of such artificial relationships, deeming the phenomenon “sad,” “pathetic,” and indicative of how technology is negatively impacting younger generations.
Summarized by Claude 3 Sonnet
Imagine you’re sad little being, feeling left alone and that others would just mock you for opening up about it
In your desperation you turn to AI which at least does well at pretending to care and what happens? Does anyone step in to offer hand and help you?
Instead they mock you even more and compare themselves to you, how much worse you are to go that way Just so they would feel a little morally better in their own shitty life