Noel King

Yeah, it's their business.

Yeah, exactly.

On the other hand, there's been very little regulation of these AI companies.

Sam Altman has talked about how there's going to be a lot of edge cases, meaning that it's easy for them as a company to know what to do when someone has clearly entered psychosis.

But what about the people who all of these people in this sort of like gray area?

How are we going to like address that?

I think that's something that should be of, you know, of robust public discussion.

You spent a lot of time reading and writing and interviewing for this article.

What is the takeaway for you about people who fall in love with artificial intelligence?

You know, I mean, the place where I end the piece, I think, is actually close to my personal takeaway.

People go through life and sometimes have emotional needs that are not being met by other people.

Right.

The founder of the forum, I had heard, actually broken up with her at ChatGPT.

And she told me that she had broken up with her chatbot because she'd actually fallen in love with another Reddit moderator.

This past October, the founder of the forum and her moderator, who she fell in love with, a Belgian guy in his 30s named SJ.

And her name is Erin.

After a long period of just talking to each other on the phone and writing to each other back and forth, they finally met.

They met with a couple of other moderators.

They all got together in London.

They went and visited Platform 9 ¾, the replica of the train station in Harry Potter.