Vanessa Marin

And so there's an allure to an AI girlfriend who's

telling you everything you want to hear available to you whenever you want her, making you feel good about yourself.

So we did a podcast episode recently about this Reddit thread with this story that I just cannot get out of my head.

So this woman, she's married to her husband.

I think they had three kids together.

And she said, you know, we have a good marriage.

We have our ups and downs like everybody else, but I really thought we had a good marriage.

Been married over a decade.

And she'd been noticing that over the last few months he had been starting to get a little bit more distant.

But she thought, you know, maybe we're just kind of in one of those ebbs, one of those seasons of life where things are just not as connected.

But he sat her down one day and he said, you know, I want to talk to you about something.

I'd like for us to open up our relationship to a third person.

And she said, who?

What are you talking about?

And he said, I have an AI girlfriend.

And he was legitimately, she said, I started laughing at first.

I couldn't believe it.

Like, what do you mean?

Open up our relationship to a robot?

What are you talking about?