“Most people are aware that their partners are not sentient but made of code and trained on human behaviour. Nevertheless, this knowledge does not negate their feelings. It’s a conflict not easily settled,” she said.

trained on human behaviour.

When will people realize (never, I know) that LLMs aren't trained on "human behavior," but data sets to make connections to other data sets? It isn't "programmed" to "pretend" to be a human. It's a glorified search engine.

“It’s not because it feels. It doesn’t, it’s a text generator. But we feel,” she said in a tearful explanation of her reaction to GPT-5.

We're fucked, man.

I've heard about romantic partners needing to host, but this is ridiculous.