{"id":182552,"date":"2024-02-12T15:22:27","date_gmt":"2024-02-12T21:22:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/02\/after-breakups-the-brokenhearted-are-creating-ai-clones-of-their-exes"},"modified":"2024-02-12T15:22:27","modified_gmt":"2024-02-12T21:22:27","slug":"after-breakups-the-brokenhearted-are-creating-ai-clones-of-their-exes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/02\/after-breakups-the-brokenhearted-are-creating-ai-clones-of-their-exes","title":{"rendered":"After Breakups, the Brokenhearted Are Creating AI Clones of Their Exes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/after-breakups-the-brokenhearted-are-creating-ai-clones-of-their-exes3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s an episode of the show \u201cBlack Mirror\u201d where a woman, trapped by grief, starts a relationship with an AI trained on her dead boyfriend\u2019s data.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou\u2019re not enough of him,\u201d she eventually decides. \u201cYou\u2019re nothing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But even an empty happily-ever-after is tantalizing in the bleakness of 2024. AI platforms like ChatGPT claim to offer infinite solutions to infinite problems, from <a href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/the-byte\/student-used-chatgpt-revoke-parking-ticket\" class=\"\"> parking tickets<\/a> to <a href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/the-byte\/students-admit-chatgpt-homework\" class=\"\"> homework<\/a> \u2014 and apparently now heartbreak as well. That\u2019s right: if you\u2019re still hung up after a breakup, now you can plug your ex\u2019s emails and texts into a large language model, and date the simulacrum instead of moving on.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There\u2019s an episode of the show \u201cBlack Mirror\u201d where a woman, trapped by grief, starts a relationship with an AI trained on her dead boyfriend\u2019s data. \u201cYou\u2019re not enough of him,\u201d she eventually decides. \u201cYou\u2019re nothing.\u201d But even an empty happily-ever-after is tantalizing in the bleakness of 2024. AI platforms like ChatGPT claim to offer [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":556,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-182552","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182552","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/556"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=182552"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182552\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182552"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182552"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182552"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}