December 25, 2025
Bad Idea no 2323546: Chat with AI Version of Ex to ‘get over them’
I am making yet another post about AI and again not in a good way. The AI we want is something like Cortana from the Halo games, Chappie from Forbidden Planet or Data in Star Trek: The Next Generation. What we have instead is a scholastic parrot that can’t answer basic questions and is more of a plagiarism machine than AI. The scary part is that people are pushing it as the cure for everything and anything. In doing that they want people to stop talking to other people and instead talk to a machine instead. This is bad for all sorts of reasons and has been causing irreparable harm to the w…
December 25, 2025
Bad Idea no 2323546: Chat with AI Version of Ex to ‘get over them’
I am making yet another post about AI and again not in a good way. The AI we want is something like Cortana from the Halo games, Chappie from Forbidden Planet or Data in Star Trek: The Next Generation. What we have instead is a scholastic parrot that can’t answer basic questions and is more of a plagiarism machine than AI. The scary part is that people are pushing it as the cure for everything and anything. In doing that they want people to stop talking to other people and instead talk to a machine instead. This is bad for all sorts of reasons and has been causing irreparable harm to the world and the way we think of other people.
Loosing someone either because they passed away or because they left you can be hard and it takes time to get over the loss. There are folks who have a hard time with this especially when the relationship was troubled/complicated and that is why Psychiatrists are there to help you get over this loss, another option is to be with friends and family who will help you with the ups and downs.
But now the Techbros have decided that they know better than anyone what is good for the people ’cause they are not people who have friends and a lot of times think of people as interchangeable parts… Elon Musk famously calls people who don’t agree with him or who he doesn’t like NPC’s which is a gaming term for Non Player Characters controlled by the game’s AI i.e. not real. So it is not surprising they have come up with the following abomination:
Chat with their AI-version of your ex. Thinking about your ex 24/7? There’s nothing wrong with you. Chat with their AI version and finally let it go. closure.ink
I found this in my feed and went to their site to learn more (not linking to it because this site doesn’t deserve any more traffic.) and below is their explanation of how things work:
AI-chats with those who disappeared Chat with the AI version of the person who ghosted you. Get your answers. Regain your strength – and move on.
How It Works 1. Select Who Ghosted You. Choose the type of person who ghosted you – a friend, date partner, recruiter, or long-term partner. 2. Tell Your Story. Share details about your relationship and what happened to help our AI understand your situation. 3. Chat for Closure
Our AI plays role of the person ghosting you. Express your anger, get your answers, and find your closure.
The page is right about the fact that you need to talk about your feelings to someone when you have been Ghosted (or lose someone) but talking to ‘AI’ is not the answer. In fact it can actually make things worse. In Nov 2025, a college graduate who was feeling down shared his feelings with ChatGPT because it was his closest confidant and ChatGPT encouraged him to kill himself as per a lawsuit filed against ChatGPT. More details on the case is documented on this Wikipedia page. This wasn’t the only case where chatbots encouraged/made the situation worse when people who are in a fragile state reached out for help. An incomplete list of Deaths linked to chatbots is available on Wikipedia and multiple mental health professionals have raised concerns about this epidemic which is only going to get worse because of the Hype machine pushing AI as a solution for all ills.
Humans are social animals and need to talk to others. Others might not agree with you 100% of the time but will give you an alternate view that you might not have thought about on your own. It is good for us to have people who challenge our views and thoughts. Otherwise we end up thinking we know everything about everything and end up in situations that could have been avoided if someone had challenged us earlier. Elon Musk is infamous for this, as most of his ideas don’t really work but everyone around him keeps calling him a genius who can do no wrong so we end up with rockets exploding and damaged launch pads because Musk overrode the engineers about the construction. There are countless other examples of this.
I do understand that there are folks who don’t have a good support system around them for various reasons and they should take even more care when interacting with AI as a support system. They can try to chat with online friends, professional psychiatrists, organized groups etc. For example, on Mastodon has a tag that you can follow to have a friendly chat with people on any topic:
Fedi.Tips 🎄@FediTips:
Reminder that if you’re wanting to have a friendly chat with people about everyday things, perhaps Christmas-related or perhaps not, there’s a tag for this at:
➡️ #JoinIn
You can talk about what you’re doing or enjoying today. Music, food, television, books, the weather… anything 🙂
It’s meant to connect people who want to have friendly discussions. Everyone is welcome to use it, but it’s especially meant to help people who are a bit isolated for whatever reason.
There are similar other resources available for people who need it including phone lines that you can call for help or just to vent.
To get you over someone, it really helps if you divert your mind by doing something else such as starting a new hobby, activity or changing your daily routine. I started Trekking to meet new people and ended up meeting my wife on a trek. Go out explore the world, you will have a better experience and get more support than what you can ever get from a ‘spicy autocomplete.’
– Suramya
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