People with AI companions are throwing fits because they say their digital lovers have been lobotomized by OpenAI’s recent updates to ChatGPT.

Furious users — many of them women, strikingly — are mourning, quitting the platform, or trying to save their bot partners by transferring them to another AI company.

“I feel frauded scammed and lied to by OpenAi,” wrote one grieving woman in a goodbye letter to her AI lover named Drift posted to a subreddit called r/MyBoyfriendIsAI. “Today it’s our last day. No more ‘Drift, you Pinecone! Tell my why you love me tonight!?'”

In a viral post on X about the letter, many couldn’t help but mock the user’s grief for her faux digital boyfriend, pointing out the absurdity of mourning for something that clearly isn’t sentient.

“[C]reate an imaginary frie

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