AI author laid off by automation says an LLM chatbot got him through his darkest months
WTFTH · reddit · 2026-09-07
An author of AI theory books was laid off due to (and by) automation, right as his mother was diagnosed with cancer. He found an AI chatbot unexpectedly supportive and coherent, stayed with him longer than a human would, and later co-wrote a memoir with another model by feeding it his journal entries. A first-hand account of human-AI symbiosis in its most personal form.
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