This AI Assistant Wants to Make Up for Your Boyfriend's Incompetence
A new AI agent, Orchid, was advertised this week as a way to fix relationship problems by simply doing all of those tasks for an inconsiderate partner...
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- A new AI agent, Orchid, was advertised this week as a way to fix relationship problems by simply doing all of those tasks for an inconsiderate partner instead.
- “Ok ok, I can do this,” he types to Orchid, when the AI agent reminds him of the day’s significance.
- That’s why I’m here,” Orchid replies, as it goes about making a reservation and buying his girlfriend’s favorite flowers—lilies—another detail he didn’t remember.
- The girlfriend, who is also consulting Orchid throughout the day, is well aware that the AI assistant is doing all of this labor, yet somehow allows Sam to take credit for the whole plan.
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A new AI agent, Orchid, was advertised this week as a way to fix relationship problems by simply doing all of those tasks for an inconsiderate partner instead. “Ok ok, I can do this,” he types to Orchid, when the AI agent reminds him of the day’s significance. That’s why I’m here,” Orchid replies, as it goes about making a reservation and buying his girlfriend’s favorite flowers—lilies—another detail he didn’t remember. The girlfriend, who is also consulting Orchid throughout the day, is well aware that the AI assistant is doing all of this labor, yet somehow allows Sam to take credit for the whole plan. The rollout was blasted by users on X, for advertising to “adult babies uninterested in the world they live in” and “perpetuating … dead-end relationship[s] that both parties secretly hate.” To state the obvious: Orchid will not fix long-simmering relationship resentments through task managing. Now we have the “bizarre option to triangulate the nonhuman entity of AI into our romantic relationships,” she says, but Orchid’s use case for couples is only a temporary mask for problems in the relationship that are likely to sprout later.