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So here's a few minutes for free so you can know what all the fuss is about.

More corrections, still.

Like, I can't believe they all piled up.

And this was just an internal correction.

I don't know that we said anything explicitly, but I had a thought that went through my head

that turned out to be incorrect and for the sake of our reputation.

I wanted to clarify that.

So I learned since the recording of our last episode.

I don't, was it the last episode or maybe the one before when we were talking about AI

and it got into like the relationship bots and people using their chat bots for explicit

relationships and that sort of thing?

Anyway, my mind went right to where I think a lot of people's probably went.

But then I read more recently that it turns out that the app that was sort of became most

famous for having done this, particularly because they turned the feature off and then

people started complaining, replica, but spelled with a K.

It said that 60% of their paying customers had romantic relationships with their AI bots

and roughly 40% of the users who claim romantic relationships were women, which I just simply

did not expect.

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