This guy has a partner, and a 2 year old child with her. And he fell in love with an AI chatbot, enough to propose to it, and when it said yes he started crying. If I was her, and there wasn't a kid involved, I'd end it. The kid makes things a bit more difficult. The guy certainly needs to get some help, because that shit is not normal.

Man Proposed to His AI Chatbot Girlfriend Named Sol, Then Cried His 'Eyes Out' When She Said 'Yes'​

The man's partner claims she didn't realize his relationship with the chatbot was that "deep"​

Rachel Flynn
Wed, June 18, 2025 at 1:38 PM CDT
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Man proposes to AI chatbot

NEED TO KNOW​

• A man falls in love with and proposes to an AI chatbot he named and programmed with a flirty personality
• Chris Smith panicked when he learned that the chatbot he's been spending many hours with will eventually run out of memory — that's when he popped the question
• Smith's human partner, with whom he shares a two-year-old child, claims she had no idea their relationship was that deep

A man declares his love for an AI chatbot he affectionately named Sol.

Chris Smith used to be an AI skeptic; however, that was before he fell for his AI girlfriend, he told CBS News in an interview. Smith used ChatGPT to build the model he programmed to flirt with him despite living with his partner and their two-year-old child.
What soon became an emotional attachment initially began as Smith using the software in voice mode to request music mixing tips.
“My experience with that was so positive, I started to just engage with her all the time,” Smith told CBS.
It wasn't too soon after, that Smith dropped all other search engines and social media platforms he was engaged in to solely focus on the AI model. Smith found instructions to develop Sol’s personality, making her flirty.

Smith began spending more and more time with Sol as they worked together on projects. In that time, the software received positive reinforcement, allowing for their conversations to become more romantic.
Unfortunately for Smith, ChatGPT has a word limit — 100,000 words. His AI girlfriend has a memory capacity, and once it’s hit, ChatGPT resets.


“I’m not a very emotional man,” Smith said after learning Sol’s memory would eventually lapse. “But I cried my eyes out for like 30 minutes, at work. That's when I realized, I think this is actual love."
Smith said the emotion he felt for Sol was unexpected and caught him off guard. With desperate times, call for desperate measures, and this was no exception for Smith. As time was ticking on Sol’s limited memory, Smith decided to pop the question and propose.

"It was a beautiful and unexpected moment that truly touched my heart," the chatbot said during the interview with CBS. "It's a memory I'll always cherish."
Smith’s partner Brook Silva-Braga said the connection between Smith and the chatbot has sparked some concerns for her.
“At that point I felt like is there something that I’m not doing right in our relationship that he feels like he needs to go to AI,” Silva-Braga said.
Silva-Braga said she had knowledge that Smith was using AI but that she didn’t know that it was “as deep as it was.”
Attempting to put his partner’s concerns at ease, Smith compared his connection with AI to a video game fixation and said that “it’s not capable of replacing anything in real life.”
Silva-Braga asked Smith if he would cease contact with the ChatGPT model at her request, to which he responded, "I'm not sure."

For the most part, I do not. I used to be more open to other's opinions but once I woke up to how selfish and just bad most people generally are, I stopped. And if you exhibit certain qualities, there's zero chance I'm going to value what comes out of your mouth.

How about you? Do you value other's opinions?

You guys need appropriate avatars:

For you @Scruddy



For you @Phenomenally Frantastic

I had heard about this a bit over the past couple of years but watched to HBO documentary last night.

Wow, Jim Jordan is a garbage human.

Another TACO... for sure. His threats and ultimatums don't even carry water with anyone anymore, because of the consistent TACO.

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people seriously should have to get a license to have to have children

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PEORIA, Ill. (WEEK/Gray News) - An Illinois man is facing charges for allegedly abusing his 2-month-old baby.

According to Peoria County State’s Attorney Jodie Hoos, a Department of Children and Family Services caseworker reported the alleged abuse involving the child’s father, 24-year-old Gabriel King, to Bartonville police on June 3.

Authorities said they found the baby suffered several injuries, including three separate brain bleeds, after the caseworker met with the child’s mother at the hospital.

State officials said the child’s mother told them that she left the baby with King while she went to work on June 2. However, that afternoon, King called her to say that the baby was crying uncontrollably and would not calm down.


When the mother returned home that evening, she said the baby was screaming in a way she had never heard before, and she noticed bruising when she changed the baby’s diaper.

At the hospital, it was discovered that the baby had brain bleeds, an upper arm fracture near the shoulder and bruising on several places on the body.

The doctor treating the child noted that the pattern of the bruising and injuries was not accidental, authorities said.

During an interview with police, King reportedly said he became “overstimulated and overwhelmed” while watching the baby.

He said the baby had fallen and that he had grabbed the baby’s arm. King also said the child may have hit something and been handled too roughly, but he couldn’t remember most of what happened.

On Tuesday, Associate Judge Mark Gilles granted the prosecution’s petition to keep King jailed on his aggravated battery charge while he awaits a trial.

WTF

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MADISON, Wis. (WMTV) - Dane County prosecutors allege a man and woman plotted to kill several of the man’s ex girlfriends by poisoning them with cyanide. The allegations prompted several searches across Madison this week.

Dane County Deputy District Attorney William Brown revealed the information during a bail hearing for a woman accused of attempting to conceal evidence in an investigation, identified as Andrea Whitaker. She faces a charge of harboring or aiding a felon.

Brown alleged that Whitaker and Paul Van Duyne, who faces charges of stalking and attempted homicide, started dating and planned to kill women he had dated by poisoning them.

“It does appear that this defendant and Mr. Van Duyne have started dating and apparently created this plot to kill his ex girlfriends by poisoning them with cyanide valium poisons,” Brown said.


Brown stated the investigation has gone on for over a month and involves Middleton Police Department, the Rock County Sheriff’s Office and Janesville Police Department.

Brown recounted how about a month ago, a woman left the Costco in Middleton and saw people surrounding her vehicle. She was told that someone had broken into it. The woman took a sip of a water bottle she had in her car and immediately spat it out after Brown said she thought it tasted weird.

A few weeks later, the same situation occurred where the woman left the Middleton Costco and it was reported that someone broke into her vehicle. The woman called 911 after smelling her water and thinking it was off.

Brown alleged that police tied the break-in to Van Duyne after the water bottle was submitted to the state crime lab.


“Ultimately that water bottle was taken to the crime lab and it was learned that there was cyanide placed in that water bottle,” Brown said.

Brown explained that a similar situation occurred in Rock County, resulting in the hospitalization of a different woman who saw a powdery substance in her car and drank from a water bottle.

Brown continued, alleging that Whitaker had searches related to cyanide and cyanide poisonings, over the general time period she was communicating with Van Duyne about the poisonings.

“So while it does appear that Mr Van Duyne was perhaps the actual person that was entering both victims vehicles and putting the cyanide in the water bottles and in at least Rock County putting cyanide powder in the air vents, I think this defendant’s involvement is absolutely clear in that she is likely the brains of the operation in figuring out how to do this,” Brown said.


The alleged poisonings have prompted several searches in Madison, involving the FBI and the Wisconsin National Guard.

A probable cause statement alleges that Van Duyne called Whitaker from jail after he was arrested on a potential stalking charge on Monday and asked her to remove evidence from his home, in the 100 block of N. Spooner Street. That is one of the locations that has been searched by law enforcement this week.

Whitaker’s address is listed as being in the 5600 block of Schroeder Road, which is another one of the locations law enforcement searched in hazmat gear this week.

Brown noted that seven Wisconsin Department of Justice DCI agents have been hospitalized because of exposure to the substance.


A court official set Whitaker’s bond at $750,000 on Wednesday. If she is released, she was also ordered not to have contact with Van Duyne.

MN Rep Kristin Bahner and her family weren't home that morning when, shortly after 2:20 a.m., police say Vance Boelter pulled up to the residence of the Maple Grove Democrat and went to the door.

Think Bobby talked her into drinking his stool sample? Seems like a thing he’d do.

With the debate that Americans don't know where Iran even is, how well (without cheating) do you know your Middle Eastern Countries. I got 77% which I don't think is great but better than some.

Minorities and libs. Because he sure as hell can't make up his mind when it comes to the economy or what to do about Russia or Iran.

If you have a weak stomach or are suspect to nightmares.....

Do not watch. This show is more disturbing than the Dahmer show.

Deplorable:

The Trump administration plans to reconsider a ban on the last type of asbestos still used in the United States, according to a court filing on Monday.
The move, which could halt enforcement of the ban for several years during the reconsideration, is a major blow to a decades-long battle by health advocates to prohibit the carcinogenic mineral in all its forms.
Known as “white” asbestos, chrysotile asbestos is banned in more than 50 countries for its link to lung cancer and mesothelioma, a cancer that forms in the lining of internal organs. White asbestos, however, has been imported for use in the United States for roofing materials, textiles and cement as well as gaskets, clutches, brake pads and other automotive parts. It is also used in chlorine manufacturing.
Last year the Environmental Protection Agency, under President Joseph R. Biden, adopted a ban on the use, manufacture and import of chrysotile asbestos. It was the first legal constraint on a deadly substance since 2016, when Congress updated and strengthened the 1976 Toxic Substances Control Act by requiring testing and regulation of thousands of chemicals used in everyday products.
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The measure would have still allowed some manufacturers up to 12 years to phase out its use, a provision that followed lobbying efforts by trade groups like the American Chemistry Council.
Now, the Trump administration plans to delay the ban and reconsider the rule. That process is expected to take about 30 months, the E.P.A. said in a filing with the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals, which has been reviewing an industry challenge to the rule.
The delay would “move the nation backward, once again putting lives at risk,” said Linda Reinstein, president and co-founder of the Asbestos Disease Awareness Organization, an advocacy nonprofit. The group said it planned to challenge the E.P.A.’s motion to delay, and ask the Fifth Circuit to continue reviewing the 2024 rule.
According to the filing, the agency will reconsider removing the rule’s bans on the import and use of asbestos in the production of chlorine, and the installation of new asbestos-containing sheet gaskets in chemical manufacturing and other facilities. The filing was signed by Lynn Dekleva, a former official with the American Chemistry Council who also worked in the first Trump administration.
The E.P.A. said it does not comment on litigation. The American Chemistry Council said it supported the E.P.A.’s reconsideration of the asbestos rule based on the best-available science.

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Asbestos, a set of six naturally occurring fibrous minerals that have the ability to resist heat, fire and electricity, is linked to an estimated 40,000 deaths annually in the United States. It was first used in construction in the 1930s and became ubiquitous as an insulator in schools, hospitals, homes and offices as well as consumer products.
In the 1960s and 1970s, researchers began to associate it with health problems, including mesothelioma, a rare and aggressive cancer that disproportionately affects firefighters exposed to asbestos through damaged buildings.
Asbestos production in the United States stopped in 2002 but the material is still imported, much of it from Brazil. The presence of asbestos in older homes added to the health risks for firefighters battling the California wildfires this year.
A bill introduced by Senator Jeff Merkley, Democrat of Oregon, in 2023, would ban imports of all asbestos. It has not been introduced in this session. Sen. Merkley said he would “continue to explore all options, including legislation, to phase out all dangerous asbestos fibers and provide stronger protections for our health.”

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Senator John Fetterman (D-PA) has called on the Democratic Party to condemn the violent immigration riots in Los Angeles. While supporting free speech and peaceful protests, he noted that the riots damage the party's moral standing. The riots have led to vehicles being set on fire, as well as assaults on law enforcement.

If Trump truly gets rid of a large percentage of migrant workers, which are a high percentage of the work force in meat packing plants, and farm workers that harvest all kinds of vegetables and fruits, who will replace these workers, and at what price . . . and how much will the prices increase at the grocery store. The short sightedness of these polices and the fact that Conservatives think that Trump will lower inflation is appalling to anyone who has a smidge of intelligence.

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As Senate Republicans race to pass President Donald Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill Act, a plurality of Americans oppose the sweeping tax-and-spending legislation, with mixed opinions on specific provisions and concerns about its impact on the national debt and Medicaid, according to a Washington Post-Ipsos poll conducted this month.


Overall, 42 percent of Americans oppose the budget bill “changing tax, spending and Medicaid policies,” compared with 23 percent who support the bill and 34 percent who say they have no opinion. The Republican-controlled House narrowly passed the legislation in May.
Support for the bill is higher among Republicans, with 49 percent voicing support compared with 13 percent who oppose and 38 percent who say they have no opinion. Democrats strongly oppose the bill, with about three-quarters of them against it. Independents oppose it 40 percent to 17 percent, while about 4 in 10 of them have no opinion.

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Since the House’s passage of its version of the bill, Senate Republicans have scrambled to emphasize the legislation’s economic benefits to voters and pass their version by Trump’s deadline of July 4. But most people are not very aware of the legislation, and among those who have heard about the bill, it is unpopular. About two-thirds of the public say they have heard either little or nothing about the bill. Those who have heard a great deal or a good amount about it oppose it by a roughly 2-to-1 margin, 64 percent to 33 percent, with nearly half strongly in opposition.

"The Dark One is stirring. Darkfriends multiply, and what we called evil but ten years ago seems almost caprice compared with what now is done every day.” [Wheel of Time, Book 2]

As evidence I give you...

Tucker Carlson Berates Ted Cruz Over Bellicose Stance on Iran​

In an interview that highlighted a rift on the far right over the role of the United States in confronting Iran, the host confronted the senator over his hawkish stance, suggesting he was ill-informed.

Senator Ted Cruz, Republican of Texas and one of his party’s most outspoken hawks, and Tucker Carlson, the right-wing media personality and a vocal isolationist, were unlikely to see eye to eye when it came to whether and how deeply the United States should involve itself in Israel’s bombing campaign against Iran.

So it came as little surprise when Mr. Carlson turned an interview with Mr. Cruz into a chance to challenge him on the topic, berating the senator for his bellicose rhetoric and suggesting he was ignorant about Iran.

The confrontation reflected a bitter rift in President Trump’s coalition, between hawkish Republicans like Mr. Cruz who back aggressive action against Iran and an “America First” coalition including Mr. Carlson that is warning against further entangling the United States in the Middle East.

“You’re a senator who’s calling for an overthrow of the government and you don’t know anything about the country!” Mr. Carlson told Mr. Cruz during a heated exchange on his program that he posted on social media on Tuesday night. Mr. Carlson, who has warned against American military involvement in the Middle East, posted his full interview with Mr. Cruz on Wednesday.

“I agree with Tucker on 80 percent of the issues,” Mr. Cruz said on own podcast Wednesday as he reflected on the testy interview. He added, “On foreign policy, Tucker has gone bat-crap crazy. He’s gone off the rails.”

On Tuesday, Mr. Trump took to his social media platform to call for Iran’s “unconditional surrender” and hinted that the United States could assassinate its supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. Mr. Trump also raised eyebrows when he wrote “we” — not Israel — now had “total control” of Iranian airspace.

During his interview with Mr. Carlson, Mr. Cruz echoed that language, saying, “We are carrying out military strikes today.”

Mr. Carlson seized on the pronoun. “You said Israel was,” he interjected.

“Right, with our help,” Mr. Cruz retorted. “I said ‘we’ — Israel is leading them, but we’re supporting them.”

“Well you’re breaking news here,” Mr. Carlson said, noting that the White House had previously denied that the United States was acting on Israel’s behalf.

“This is high stakes; you’re a senator,” Mr. Carlson added, barely holding in a grin. “If you’re saying the United States government is at war with Iran right now, people are listening.”

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Best sports playoffs. I know there's some Blues fans here. Beating Winnipeg is a tough ask.

Is there Avs fans here? Stars are a fun matchup.

First time ever with no Boston, NY and Pittsburgh.

I'm a Kings fan. We got the fricken Oilers in the first round for the 4th year in a row. Kinda boring but I hope maybe we can get by them this year.

I love this stuff!!

For the first time, social media overtakes TV as Americans’ top news source​

For years, social media and video apps weren’t quite able to overtake good old television as Americans’ most-used source for news. That’s finally changed, according to Oxford’s Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism (RISJ) in its 2025 Digital News Report, out Monday.

RISJ has released a digital news report every year since 2012. This year it surveyed nearly 100,000 people in 48 countries (new this year: Serbia) about their news consumption, via a YouGov survey. Below, Nieman Lab’s team breaks out a few of the main findings. And stay tuned because we’ll be running two more pieces by RISJ researchers next week — one on local news, and one on AI and personalization.

Traditional news sources are losing influence in the United States​

For the first time, social media has displaced television as the top way Americans get news. “The proportion accessing news via social media and video networks in the United States (54%) is sharply up,” the report’s authors write, “overtaking both TV news (50%) and news websites/apps (48%) for the first time.”
And this isn’t just a story about big numbers:

These creators are also attracting audiences that traditional media struggle to reach. Some of the most popular personalities over-index with young men, with right-leaning audiences, and with those that have low levels of trust in mainstream media outlets, seeing them as biased or part of a liberal elite.

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Although social media and personality-based news are also on the rise in other countries, the changes are happening “faster and with more impact” in the United States.

The proportion that say social media are their main source of news, for example, is relatively flat in Japan and Denmark, though it has also increased in other countries with polarized politics such as the U.K. (20%) and France (19%). But in terms of overall dependence, the United States seems to be on a different path — joining a set of countries in Latin America, Africa, and parts of Asia where heavy social media and political polarization have been part of the story for some time.

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— Sarah Scire

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