Women with AI ‘boyfriends’ mourn lost love after ‘cold’ ChatGPT upgrade

“Most people are aware that their partners are not sentient but made of code and trained on human behaviour. Nevertheless, this knowledge does not negate their feelings. It’s a conflict not easily settled,” she said.

trained on human behaviour.

When will people realize (never, I know) that LLMs aren't trained on "human behavior," but data sets to make connections to other data sets? It isn't "programmed" to "pretend" to be a human. It's a glorified search engine.

“It’s not because it feels. It doesn’t, it’s a text generator. But we feel,” she said in a tearful explanation of her reaction to GPT-5.

We're fucked, man.