There Are No Girls on the Internet

People are in Love with AI. The ChatGPT-5 Launch and Kendra’s Viral Therapist TikTok Saga Force a Reckoning.


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A woman named Kendra went viral on TikTok with a series of videos about her relationship with her human psychiatrist, but the videos took a surprising turn when she introduced her ChatGPT “therapist” she calls Henry. 

 

More people than you might think are forming social relationships with chatbots, some of them romantic and even sexual. When OpenAI released their new ChatGPT-5 model last week, replacing the older ChatGPT-4o model, many users felt like a loved one had been taken away from them. Bridget and Producer Mike recap how the botched ChatGPT release brought this issue into the spotlight, try to understand the vulnerable humans caught in the middle, and explore what it means when tech products replace human connection. 

 

Unpacking the TikToker Who Fell in Love With Her Psychiatrist: https://www.thecut.com/article/kendra-hilty-fell-in-love-with-psychiatrist-tiktok.html?_gl=1*1in5yhw*FPAU*MjEzOTUwMzQzNS4xNzUyNzk5OTYy*_ga*NDMxMDgwMzk2LjE3NDcyMzgyMDE.*_ga_DNE38RK1HX*czE3NTQ4NTAzOTIkbzIxJGcxJHQxNzU0ODUwNDI1JGoyNyRsMCRoMjA4ODkzMjIzNw..*_fplc*RzZTb1U4b0VuS2RjeEpxVm9OWXlzWFlXTkYlMkJPaW9IZkNKZnVDMzhTUiUyRldra3FVckdRRTlZUGpMaXR6WVpFUHoxc2xYUk9wOWNPU2lCTHNhTXBSY3ZHd3dvbHJoMWNxbVIyUXZhOEtweFRxZ1NwejliZWdBcWZvRXJMcTVvQSUzRCUzRA..

 

ChatGPT users hate GPT-5’s “overworked secretary” energy, miss their GPT-4o buddy: https://arstechnica.com/ai/2025/08/chatgpt-users-outraged-as-gpt-5-replaces-the-models-they-love/

 

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