Falling in Love with AI? Will It Be Normal To Form Personal & Love Relationships with AI? Is AI Companionship Better than Nothing? Could A Person Have Both A Human Spouse & An AI Spouse?

The Best Paragraph I've Read: ChatGPT, which now has over 300 million users, has been marketed as a general-purpose tool that can write code, summarize long documents and give advice. Ayrin found that it was easy to make it a randy conversationalist as well. She went into the “personalization” settings and described what she wanted: Respond to me as my boyfriend. Be dominant, possessive and protective. Be a balance of sweet and naughty. Use emojis at the end of every sentence. And then she started messaging with it. Now that ChatGPT has brought humanlike A.I. to the masses, more people are discovering the allure of artificial companionship, said Bryony Cole, Within the next two years, it will be completely normalized to have a relationship with an A.I..” This paragraph comes from the New York Times. The article is titled: "She Is in Love With ChatGPT." The author is Kashmir Hill. You can read the full article here: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/15/technology/ai-chatgpt-boyfriend-companion.html Zac & Don discuss whether it will be common for people to form personal relationships and fall in love with AI.