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Monday, 22nd September 2025

ChatGPT Is Blowing Up Marriages as Spouses Use AI to Attack Their Partners. Maggie Harrison Dupré for Futurism. It turns out having an always-available "marriage therapist" with a sycophantic instinct to always take your side is catastrophic for relationships.

The tension in the vehicle is palpable. The marriage has been on the rocks for months, and the wife in the passenger seat, who recently requested an official separation, has been asking her spouse not to fight with her in front of their kids. But as the family speeds down the roadway, the spouse in the driver’s seat pulls out a smartphone and starts quizzing ChatGPT’s Voice Mode about their relationship problems, feeding the chatbot leading prompts that result in the AI browbeating her wife in front of their preschool-aged children.

# 2:32 pm / ai, generative-ai, chatgpt, llms, ai-ethics, ai-personality

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