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I Stumbled Across My Boyfriend's ChatGPT and It Ended Our Relationship

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It wasn't cheating or some dramatic betrayal. What I read was worse: his uncertainty.

I find out my now ex-boyfriend had been questioning his feelings and attraction to me in the most dystopian, laughably modern way possible: ChatGPT. Laid on his couch, midnight on a Friday, I was working late as he snoozed blissfully on my shoulder when my phone died in the heat of a client exchange. “Shit,” I mumbled. Pivoting, I grabbed his laptop off the floor to run my final, fatigued, glassy-eyed client response through AI. As I powered his computer, his ChatGPT - almost poetically - was already front and center on the screen. As I copied and pasted my email — I peered to the left…

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