ChatGPT Update 'Deletes' Hundreds of AI Boyfriends/Girlfriends

I try not to judge people. After all, circumstances lead us all down different paths, so who am I to be critical of others for merely playing the cards that life dealt them?

However, sometimes you lot make that really bloody difficult.

Earlier this month, the AI chatbot ChatGPT received its latest update: GPT-5. The new update immediately upset a lot of people online, because the new GPT-5 model replaced its previous model, GPT-4o, entirely.

To those of you with things like social lives or loved ones, this might not seem like a huge deal. It’s merely an update, so it probably just made the AI smarter or quicker or something, right?

Apparently, no; the previous GPT-4o model was far more goofy, personable, and… uh, loving, so it’s death has upset thousands of people who were using it for romantic purposes. Christ, what a sentence.

According to Dexerto's Carver Fisher, the subreddit r/MyBoyfriendIsAI has been in a period of mourning following the GPT-5 update, as they feel that the personalities of their virtual, robot partners are now dead.

Not an exaggeration, by the way. An “In Remembrance” post, which was written by AI (of course), details several user’s pain in losing their clanker boyfriends and girlfriends.

It’s not often I’m lost for words but… man, this is just depressing.

Have we really lost our way this much? Is ChatGPT genuinely a better, more loving or more feasible romantic partner for so many? Is dating in the year 2025 really that bleak?

I just don’t like the way things are headed if stuff like this is going to slowly become the norm. Blade Runner 2049 isn’t supposed to be a documentary, folks. I just hope that this is a blip in mankind’s trajectory, and not something we need to course correct on immediately.

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