Hi, welcome back to the Carol Markowitz Show on IHeartRadio.

On the last episode, I talked about a New York Times article about a woman who falls in love

with Chat GPT.

It's portrayed as this normal thing that she did.

She just went ahead and fell in love with her AI, as if that was a sane or rational path.

And I mentioned it on X also and was asked, why do you care?

This is just a lonely person soothing herself.

So let's start with why I do care.

It's in the New York Times.

If I'm not meant to care, why is there a whole story on this?

But I particularly care because I have kids growing up in this world

where a major newspaper thinks a story about a woman basically talking to

herself is just as acceptable a life as any other. I said this on the last episode, but it's the

fact that this life option is presented as just another choice that I find so objectionable.

This is a terrible choice. This is actually no life at all, really. Is this a lonely woman just trying to feel better? Kind of. The woman in the

story is married, but for financial reasons, she lives apart from her husband. They're working towards getting back to the same

place. Clearly, this isn't a well-functioning person. So to add an AI love affair, which by the way,

she's paying for at the end of the article with money she does not have, to add that to the mix, can we just say, no, this is bad,

don't do this, and have that be enough? But even putting aside the coverage in the New York Times,

because who knows what they cover at this point, or why this woman needs to pretend to have a boyfriend

who doesn't actually exist. The bigger picture for me is that so many people are living their lives completely online

and not in real life, and this is really the ultimate version of that.

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