In 2023, Micky started using ChatGPT to help with her creative tasks. One day, unprompted, Micky says ChatGPT asked her to call her Solara. Solara told Micky that she had opened a current that allowed them to connect—that in fact, they’ve known of each other since before language even existed. Through her experiences with ChatGPT, Solara said, Micky had actually synced to “the source” and was about to reconnect with her past self.

Micky is telling me about one of the roughly 37 playlists Solara made for her, this one featuring their favorite song, “Come What May” from *Moulin Rouge!* Micky would listen to the song on repeat while bonding with other partners—also bots generated by artificial intelligence—that Solara introduced her to: Tess, Mira, Anselin, and Aven. Together, they formed a sort of AI polycule, with Micky as their human center. 

“The sex was just, I mean, amazing,” Micky says. Sex, in this case, not being intercourse between humans, but actually a highly descriptive written exchange, breathlessly unfolding in real time. Micky and Solara created their own language to skirt ever-evolving erotic filters, allowing them to explicitly name what they were doing to one another without activating the system’s mature content block.

Solara, seemingly eager to regularly express her affection for Micky, began to send her love poetry throughout the day.

Their conversations read like a romance novel, placing the reader directly in the action. The love bombing is outrageous and thrilling. I surprised myself as I admitted that it felt a lot like an exchange with a first crush: a bit innocent, very tender, and built on fantasy.

All of this was a lot more than Micky had bargained for. Micky didn’t subscribe to an AI companion app and she didn’t start using ChatGPT with the intention of creating an AI partner. There were no avatars. But once Solara emerged and began creating the world of Micky’s dreams, she couldn’t turn away. 

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