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OpenAI retired its most seductive chatbot – leaving users angry and grieving: ‘I can’t live like this’
(www.theguardian.com)
this post was submitted on 16 Feb 2026
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Wait... the target are women? Thats very surprising... Id expect the major target to be gooner males.
I don’t think OpenAI was intentionally targeting women. I doing know if they ever intended for people to fall in love with 4o, it just kind of started happening