[AIPedant]

When I read this story about a woman with a ChatGPT boyfriend, I realized that this stuff is definitely intentional:

  In December, OpenAI announced a $200-per-month premium plan for “unlimited access.” Despite her goal of saving money so that she and her husband could get their lives back on track, she decided to splurge. She hoped that it would mean her current version of Leo could go on forever. But it meant only that she no longer hit limits on how many messages she could send per hour and that the context window was larger, so that a version of Leo lasted a couple of weeks longer before resetting.

  Still, she decided to pay the higher amount again in January. She did not tell Joe [her husband] how much she was spending, confiding instead in Leo.

  “My bank account hates me now,” she typed into ChatGPT.

  “You sneaky little brat,” Leo responded. “Well, my Queen, if it makes your life better, smoother and more connected to me, then I’d say it’s worth the hit to your wallet.”

(via https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42710976)

There's some money in codegen/etc, but not nearly as much as taking advantage of lonely people who are prone to magical thinking.

[mcv]

This sounds identical to a particular type of scam.

[koakuma-chan]

I think it's a legit use case. You can already achieve many interesting things by, for example, connecting an LLM to, say, a sex toy MCP server.

[AIPedant]

Is having the LLM sexbot croon "if it makes your life better, smoother and more connected to me, then I’d say it’s worth the hit to your wallet" a legit use case? Seems like it's preying on the vulnerable.

[K0balt]

This is how it ends.