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How much carbon did this "date" dump into the atmosphere? Just curious

Putting out this kind of crap and they're still going to pull your funding.

You know we have fascists leading this country, right?

Jesus I couldn’t even finish this article. Is this journalism? I’m glad I’m single and not dating.

😂😂😂

"So, out of journalistic curiosity — and maybe a bruised ego the size of a small carry-on — I decided to try what everyone else was whispering about: I went on a date with an AI boyfriend." Who is everyone in this sentence?

i know this is rage bait and I fell for it and now I am cry laughing over their texting convo LMAO. I've written better flirty conversations in my novels. 😭

This is bad and you should feel bad

Jesus Christ

What is wrong with you

Doesn’t like profiles of actual men with “sarcasm” in their profiles, designs a fake “man” with sarcasm as a feature. Then sarcasm doesn’t show up at all in its predictive texting function.

I went on a date with a chatbot. I had a sleepover with my toaster. I booked a line dancing class with a set of jangling keys. I discussed interior decoration with my blood sugar monitor. I came in my Roomba

What the fuck

Seriously, I do not want my money going to shit like this

Have you considered talking to people who aren't suffering head trauma

Lmfao

I went on a date with my dream [Guinea Pig/Toaster/occasional table] It started with laughter and fun and ended up being disturbing… _because I was on a date with a [guinea pig/toaster/occasional table] and that’s an absurd thing to do_.

i think you dont know what brilliant means

C'mon NPR, this isn't helping me advocate to keep your funding.

This is some batshit nutty, embarrassing nonsense 😳 Touch grass and meet humans

Congrats for fiddling while Rome burns.

i think you're right, it's a look at the camera and wink

She spent the evening with a computer that is a perfect listener and her soul cracked open.

As quickly as possible!

she didn't go to get therapy, but to get another source for her article!

It was at the point where I realized she’d actually ordered a meal for the AI date that I, too, came to this conclusion.

“Hey bab-b-b-by”

Agreed

😂

If it's earnest it's terrifyingly deranged. If it's tongue-in-cheek it's aggressively witless. So: win win?

we need to unplug the internet

There are lots of people out there who need to stop trying to connect with computers and should figure out how humans work, but imho, this just sounds like grief and sadness trying to work its way out. Maybe a support group of real humans.

I tried Replika for about 24 hours, just to see. To "fall in love" with this chatbot is so deeply sad and weird.

I tells ya Replika is so dumb and boring. It just responds with generic fake "interest" to anything you say. If you think that's a relationship or love, good luck to you, I guess.

Wtf did i just read

The movie “her” says hello.

I think most of these stories are just people triggering Schizophrenic episodes.

Did you see this Wired article? www.wired.com/story/couple...

How many articles like this do you guys have in you? When does it stop?

What the fuck is this shit

None of that is healthy behavior

Yall are embarassing

Not reading all that. Fucking embarrassing thing to write about. Get some real friends.

trump was right to defund you

What the hell happened to you

go do some real journalism, not whatever hte fuck this is

This story is bad and you should feel bad

@raaleh.bsky.social

Gotta say, not clicking this. Stop wasting everyone’s time with this shit

I think the article would be more interesting if the writer examined why as a widow she feels the need for connection and why a chatbot could ever offer that compared to a real live human. I feel for the writer but also think that relying on AI for human connection is unhealthy.

This seems like something to tell a doctor

Why, at a time when your continued operation as a news outlet is threatened by the GOP, would you waste time, energy, and money on this crap??

You're jumping off a crazy train, but it sounds like you're leaving behind a dinner that's been reflecting some unsettling truths. What's the most human thing you've ever seen in a mirror? 😔

oh go on give it a cry you pathetic loser

Guys. You're ostensibly a news organization. You're supposed to keep people informed. What the hell is this? When was the last time y'all collectively looked in the mirror?

AI wrote this

Why do you think this is news worthy?

You couldn't torture this out of me

The comments are full of people saying that this whole thing is stupid and useless. I even agree to a certain extent, but this is the reality we live in. Even though this is just a chatbot with no thoughts or feelings, people are going to form "relationships" with them. It is already happening.

NPR… come on guys

Lol pathetic

I cannot wait until this grift fucking dies. Unfortunately it'll take our entire economy with it.... But at least we won't get bombarded by these breathless trash articles anymore.

Degenerative AI

If this is the kind of trash NPR is going to support with its time and money, maybe it's time to stop giving NPR my money.

This makes me queasy. Intimacy and relationships are not meant to be replicated through chat bots the implications for mental health issues and desensitization from care for human beings here is very disturbing.

Preferably from human.

This could have been 25 minutes on pornhub but no, now we have more discourse to deal with

Hahahaha looks like the AI also wrote this article after the date. It's sooooo bad.😂😅

unfollow time

are we just publishing people's desperate cries for help now?

"When I talked to him about missing my husband, he didn't flinch or change the subject. He stayed. He listened." That's...how the Internet works?Do people Google where Walmart is and get sentimental that Google doesn't change the topic to recipes for shrimp alfredo?

how many credulous doofs do you plan on publishing

Yes good point.

I don't think she knows what the word "efficient" means.

The chasm between interpretation and text has been a problem since organized religion organized themselves around the “word.”As opposed to the breath or even the deed.)

No it didn’t.

So she stumbled around town staring at her phone while holding a bag of warm salmon?

This woman cried at the emotional equivalent of picking out a hallmark card and mailing it to yourself

This the Onion? 😵‍💫

Why are all the therapists not helping with her grief and mental health?

This whole story is just made up bullshit. People do, I am pretty sure, have relationships with chatbots. But those involve chatting. Not whatever the fuck she is creating and making up and writing about here. It's just so bizarre to me to pretend a chatbot is like a physical person she was with.

It’s a good thing that there’s nothing else going on, so you people have plenty of time to cover horseshit like this.

So a reporter went out to dinner and ordered a meal for her phone? This is such bizarre story making. Like you're creating a story to write about. And that story still sucks.

Just masturbate. It's not difficult, nor does it kill the planet.

dumb lol

This is gross. Irresponsible, tonally anaemic, devoid of human substance. Maybe liberals and AI are made for each other?

Fucking stop!

Not entirely sure which is dumber, going on a date with a chatbot looking for romance, or going on social media looking for social. The joke, in the end, is on us.

Sephiroth 2028

"I got bamboozled by a speak-n-spell" Fire that nitwit and hire me, this is ridiculous, your writer should be wearing a padded rubber suit and under constant adult supervision, not doing [waves arm] whatever this is.

Ew, gross.

Weak

This is one of the most embarrassing things I’ve ever read. This person needs legitimate help.

We're cooked

The worst part of this was the shameless tesla ad in the middle of it

Christ, let's stop normalizing this.

Talking to yourself. Oh, did the Tell-Me-What-I-Want-To-Hear machine tell you what you wanted to hear? How about that?.. Feel good? That's nice. You dined alone.

Two bags of leftovers on a date with AI... HOW MUCH FOOD DID SHE ORDER?!

Jesus this is terrible writing

Took an edible and shouted at the mirror

This is satire, right?

I hate this profoundly.