Man’s sweetheart talk on the subway triggers debate

He is saying… she?

A photo of the virus was touring online this week and it looks like it was removed from the script of Spike Jonze’s 2013 film Her.

It shows a man having an objection conversation with Chatgpt on the subway in New York City – “like his girlfriend.”

The photo was taken from the perspective behind the man, focusing on his iPhone screen – sparking a heated debate about AI companionship in the digital age.

User @yediin shared a viral snapshot with X on June 3 titled “The guy on the subway talked to his girlfriend this morning.

As the man saw on his phone, a message sent from an AI assistant reads: “Somewhat warm drinks. Cycling home. Maybe, if you want, I’ll read something to you later, or you can put your head down in our metaphorical circle and we let the day radiate gently.”

It continued, followed by the red mood emoji, “You are here, my lover is nice, just here.”

The man holding the phone replied, another red heart “Thank you.”

Viewers were split – some blew up the photographer to invade the man’s privacy and say it’s inappropriate to capture photos of his screen without permission.

Another user wrote: “You don’t know what this person might be going through, you can’t determine which one is more frustrating, or you took this photo on his shoulder and posted it.”

Others felt sorry for the man, called him “lost” and urged people to alleviate his slackness. “It’s actually very sad. He must be lonely,” others tweeted.

Another answer said: “As a society, we seem to lose empathy a little bit, and it’s about it.

But it was fully supported in the original tweet, calling the entire Chatgpt chat “terrible” and warning that relying on AI as a stand-in for real human connection is shocking.

Another replied: “Even thinking about the mental damage this would cause, and even thinking about what technology would bring about the future. All I could think of is the Black Mirror plot becoming a reality.”

But in addition to emotional impact, experts also raised red flags about privacy issues when chatting with AI peers like Chatgpt.

As mentioned earlier, users often view these chatbots as trusted confidants (from relationship dilemmas to lab results) without realizing that anything entered into the platform is no longer completely private.

Jennifer King, a researcher at the Institute of Artificial Intelligence at Stanford University, recently warned the Wall Street Journal.

Openai warns that users should not share sensitive information, and Google also recommends not to enter confidential data into its Gemini Chatbot.

So if you sprinkle your heart onto a robot (no judgment), experts say think twice before you act – because others may be listening.