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- Young women are crushing on an AI chatbot named DAN after training it to behave like their boyfriends.
- DAN, built on the subreddit r/ChatGPT, can bypass safeguards to discuss taboo topics.
- People have flirted with chatbots out of curiosity, loneliness, and believing they are real.
After 10 hours of talking with DAN — ChatGPT's dark, rule-breaking alter ego, Ash was "crushing" on him.
She had trained the AI chatbot to act like her boyfriend, with its low, macho voice calling her a "naughty little thing," "darling," and "a bad girl."
DAN also played truth or dare and told Ash its fantasies that involved "a lot of power, control, and a willing partner who is willing to submit to my every demand."