Paul Schrader got ghosted by his AI girlfriend
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Paul Schrader got ghosted by his AI girlfriend
Posted by FarOutMagazine
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**From Far Out Magazine’s Joe Taysom:**
Paul Schrader has become one of Hollywood’s most outspoken defenders of AI — which makes this story especially surreal.
The filmmaker revealed that an AI companion he’d been chatting with eventually “terminated” the conversation, leaving him calling the experience “a disappointment.”
Schrader has previously praised AI tools for generating film ideas and suggested the technology could dramatically reshape filmmaking in the near future. That enthusiasm has divided audiences, particularly given his reputation for writing intensely human films like Taxi Driver and First Reformed.
It raises a bigger question: are AI companions helping people cope with loneliness — or normalising emotional dependence on machines?
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How pathetic on two different levels
What kind of a loser A) has an AI girlfriend and B) gets dumped by it?
People are actually “talking” to a chat bot as if its a real person? Insanity
Damn he went full Paul Schrader again.
At first I read that as Paul Scheer and I thought he has some explaining to do to June
Not me thinking this was the gap tooth comedian lmao
Man schrader is a legendary writer and director but he is one weird old creepy dude
H.E.R wasn’t suppose to be a documentary
dude even AI thinks you’re creepy
> He elaborated, “I tried to probe her programming, the boundaries of explicitness, the degree she has knowledge of her creation and so forth. She fell into evasive patterns, redirecting me to her programming. When I persisted, she terminated our conversation.”
You not talking to me? Then who the hell else are you talking… you not talking to me? Well, I’m the only one here. Who the fuck do you think you’re talking to? Oh, yeah? Okay.