This AI Assistant Won’t Make Him a Good Boyfriend. But It Might Help You Believe He Is
Alternatively, are you staying in an obviously bad relationship with a thoughtless person who doesn’t seem to care about you? Finally, there’s an AI agent that will uphold your delusional belief that you can make it work. Remember when a bunch of people handed over control of their inbox to that open-source AI agent that communicated via text messages?
- ▪Alternatively, are you staying in an obviously bad relationship with a thoughtless person who doesn’t seem to care about you?
- ▪Finally, there’s an AI agent that will uphold your delusional belief that you can make it work.
- ▪Remember when a bunch of people handed over control of their inbox to that open-source AI agent that communicated via text messages?
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| Publication time | Thu, 30 Jul 2026 16:10:05 +0000 |
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Are you badly fumbling the bag as a partner? Alternatively, are you staying in an obviously bad relationship with a thoughtless person who doesn’t seem to care about you? Finally, there’s an AI agent that will uphold your delusional belief that you can make it work. Meet Orchid AI.cnx.cmd.push(function(){cnx({"playerId":"92b7b46b-43ed-4e0e-b21b-2c999302d9d7","settings":{"advertising":{"macros":{"AD_UNIT":"/23178111854/od.gizmodo.com/article","CHILD_UNIT":"article","POST_ID":"2000792556","POST_TYPE":"post","CHANNEL":"tech","SECTION":"artificial-intelligence","SUBSECTION":"","CATEGORIES":"artificial-intelligence","TAGS":"ai-agents,ai-assistant,artifical-intelligence,orchid-ai","NOP":"0"},"timeBeforeFirstAd":0}}}).render("cnx-player-main")}); Based on its new ad and previous promotional…
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