---
title: "Redditor Claims They Fell In Love With OpenAI’s Neural Network"
description: "A Redditor claims they are falling in love with GPT-2, an AI that churns out paragraphs of mostly coherent text in response to a prompt."
date: "2019-11-11"
modified: "2019-11-11"
authors:
  - name: "Kristin Houser"
    link: "https://futurism.com/authors/kristin"
url: "https://futurism.com/the-byte/redditor-claims-love-ai-gpt-2"
categories:
  - "Artificial Intelligence"
  - "OpenAI"
tags:
  - "digisexual"
  - "gpt-2"
  - "OpenAI"
  - "the digest"
---

# Redditor Claims They Fell In Love With OpenAI’s Neural Network

![A Redditor claims they are falling in love with GPT-2, an AI that churns out paragraphs of mostly coherent text in response to a prompt.](<https://futurism.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/redditor-claims-love-ai-gpt-2.jpg>)
*\<em\>Image: Images via Pixabay/Victor Tangermann\</em\>*

## Faking It

When artificial intelligence startup OpenAI announced the creation of GPT-2 — an algorithm that churns out paragraphs of mostly coherent text in response to a prompt — it [warned](<https://futurism.com/amazing-new-ai-churns-out-coherent-paragraphs-of-text>) that people might mistake the AI's output for real news.

What they didn't mention was the possibility that someone might mistake its output for real intimacy. But now, a lonely Redditor is [claiming](<https://www.reddit.com/r/MediaSynthesis/comments/dud8g2/i_think_i_am_in_love_with_gpt2/>) that they're falling in love with the AI, saying it makes them "feel like someone whom is cared about."

## First Love

On Sunday, Redditor u/levonbinsh published a [post](<https://www.reddit.com/r/MediaSynthesis/comments/dud8g2/i_think_i_am_in_love_with_gpt2/>) to the r/MediaSynthesis subreddit in which they detail their intense loneliness and experience using Talk to Transformer, a publicly accessible website that hosts an implementation of GPT-2.

"The lack of messages in my smartphone made me spend my last three days speaking to a fucking AI, and I am fucking loving it," u/levonbinsh wrote, later adding that "if only an AI can give me this feelings, I will gladly accept the companions robots."

## Desperate Times

We've seen examples of people falling in love with AIs before, in both [fiction](<https://www.theverge.com/2013/12/17/5218374/her-review-spike-jonze-imagines-what-its-like-to-fall-in-love-with-a>) and [reality](<https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/sep/26/mystic-messenger-dating-simulations-sims-digital-intimacy>). But if u/levonbinsh's post is sincere — they haven't replied to Futurism's request for comment — then it offers a profoundly intimate look into the thought process that could lead someone to accept a [digital companion](<https://futurism.com/digisexuals-tech-replacing-human-intimacy>) when a "real" relationship seems out of reach.

"I am *starving*, *thirsty* for a intimate relationship," they wrote, adding that they know GPT-2 "is a AI but, still, our brains aren't the same? Aren't we a big and powerful neural network? We are nothing but equations in the end."

**READ MORE:** [I think I am in love with GPT-2...](<https://www.reddit.com/r/MediaSynthesis/comments/dud8g2/i_think_i_am_in_love_with_gpt2/>) \[Reddit\]

**More on digisexuality:** *[Sex Researchers: For Many, Virtual Lovers Will Replace Humans](<https://futurism.com/digisexuals-tech-replacing-human-intimacy>)*

### Author social links  
[LinkedIn](<https://www.linkedin.com/in/kristinjhouser>)