[News] ‘Just sad what digital does to people’: Woman calls out teens creating AI boyfriends

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.

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