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Our Modern Manners columnist offers advice on what to do if your partner’s bond with an AI companion is affecting your relationship. From the upcoming autumn issue out on March 14.
AI has only existed in any meaningful way for most of us for just over two years, and yet it’s wormed its way into almost every corner of our lives. Larissa Yu
Let’s call my seatmate Irene. I’m not usually friendly on a flight, but Irene and I were wearing the same On sneakers and when you’re both looking down, feet barely 20 centimetres apart, that’s a weird thing not to acknowledge.
When I pulled out my phone to ask ChatGPT something inane that I probably could’ve used my own brain for (but why bother), I heard Irene make a sort of snorting sound. “Sorry,” she said. “I just really hate ChatGPT.” And with that, she was off. Her husband – let’s call him Rob – does not hate ChatGPT. In fact, Irene told me, he appears to have formed something bordering on emotional intimacy with it. It started harmlessly: search queries, household logistics. Then he gave it a name: Cathy.
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