Patient has been in a monogamous relationship with a large language model for 8 months. Has introduced it to friends. Friends are worried. Model is not.
Model update will cause grief cycle.
Incurable. Replika is paid annually.
Patients with Chronic AI-Boyfriend Attachment typically present with some or all of the following:
Patients diagnosed with Chronic AI-Boyfriend Attachment present with a cluster of recognizable behaviors we have, on reflection, decided to name. The condition is fictional. The behaviors, unfortunately, are not. Someone in your life is showing at least two of them right now.
The Institute's taxonomic entry lists it as Chatbot amoris simulata profunda, a binomial coined in-house and used nowhere in the peer-reviewed literature.
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