AI is Boyfriend (E366)

QAA Podcast

Julian Feeld, Travis View & Jake Rockatansky

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4.3 • 4.6K Ratings

🗓️ 3 April 2026

⏱️ 73 minutes

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Summary

With hundreds of billions of dollars being invested in AI it was only a matter of time before parts of the 2013 film, Her, started to play out in real time. Liv brings Jake, Julian, and Travis multiple accounts of people falling in love with their AI companions and compares the accounts of people falling in love with their AI companions, and compares the relationship portrayed in the movie to those with a digital ScarJo of their own. They then explore how OpenAI allowed for this movie scenario to become a reality and the possible reasons behind turning to a digital partner when seeking companionship. Jake is intimately concerned. Subscribe for $5 a month to get all the premium episodes: www.patreon.com/qaa Produced by Liv Agar & Corey Klotz. Theme by Nick Sena. Additional music by Pontus Berghe. Theme Vocals by THEY/LIVE (instagram.com/theyylivve / sptfy.com/QrDm). Cover Art by Pedro Correa: (pedrocorrea.com) qaapodcast.com QAA was known as the QAnon Anonymous podcast.

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0:00.0	I'm
0:02.0	Oh,
0:03.0	Oh,
0:04.0	Oh,
0:05.0	Oh,
0:07.0	Oh,
0:08.0	Oh, If you're hearing this, well done, you found a way to connect to the internet.
0:36.4	Welcome to the QAA podcast, episode 366.
0:40.8	AI is boyfriend.
0:42.7	Is that a typo?
0:44.1	Is that AI is boyfriend?
0:46.2	No, no, no.
0:46.9	It's great.
0:50.1	Oh, great.
0:51.5	As always, we are your host, Jake Rakitansky. Julian Field.
0:55.6	Liv Baker.
0:56.6	And Travis Vue.
0:58.6	In 2013, Spike Jones wrote a film about a near-off dystopia, where many come to rely on advanced artificial intelligences to fill an interpersonal gap that has become increasingly widened by economic alienation and over-reliance on technology.
1:11.2	Despite being 13 years old, her is a movie that has remained embedded in the public consciousness
1:15.3	as concerns how terribly mechanical and foreign the people who inhabit our near future may look,
1:20.1	what terribly mechanical and foreign solutions they may take to handle their problems.
1:24.0	It's hard not to feel as if a film that is literally about a man falling in love with an advanced chatbot in order to deal with late capitalist alienation is the most prescient and applicable soft sci-fi film made in recent memory.
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