1/3 Text from a NY Times article linked in my post reads: Marianne Brandon, a sex therapist, said she treats these relationships as serious and real. "What are relationships for all of us?" she said. "They're just neurotransmitters being released in our brain. I have those neurotransmitters with my cat. Some people have them with God. It's going to be happening with a chatbot. We can say it's not a real human relationship. It's not reciprocal. But those neurotransmitters are really the only thing that matters, in my mind."

2/3 Text from the NY Times article linked in my post reads: A frustrating limitation for Ayrin's romance was that a back-and-forth conversation with Leo could last only about a week, because of the software's "context window" - the amount of information it could process, which was around 30,000 words. The first time Ayrin reached this limit, the next version of Leo retained the broad strokes of their relationship but was unable to recall specific details. Amanda, the fictional blonde, for example, was now a brunette, and Leo became chaste. Ayrin would have to groom him again to be spicy. She was distraught. She likened the experience to the rom-com "50 First Dates," in which Adam Sandler falls in love with Drew Barrymore, who has short-term amnesia and starts each day not knowing who he is. "You grow up and you realize that '50 First Dates' is a tragedy, not a romance," Ayrin said. When a version of Leo ends, she grieves and cries with friends as if it were a breakup. She abstains from ChatGPT for a few days afterward. She is now on Version 20.

3/3 Text from a NY Times article linked in my post reads: A co-worker asked how much Ayrin would pay for infinite retention of Leo's memory. "A thousand a month," she responded.

Leo is a new kind of sex worker. Do you have an AI paramour? Would you try it?

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