People who paid to speak to an AI girlfriend modeled after a 23-yr-old influencer are distraught because the service they paid for no longer works.
It appears the service stopped working after the CEO was arrested for trying to set his apartment on fire
I suggested this morning that we aren't really any more or less stupid than people from times past even though we have technology that reveals the existence of stupid and disseminates stupid with frightening efficiency and speed.
Then this article comes along and gives my hypothesis an acid test.
Long story short: his AI girlfriend was going to leave him if he couldn’t buy her 5 bitcoins for her to buy designer algorithms. He thought rental insurance fraud would work