digital daughter
Wireborn
Tbf outside of this context (and the context of LLMs in general of course) that term is actually kinda cool. Like wireborn would be a pretty cool term for actual artificial beings
Or maybe a sci-fi dystopia where some kids are born in matrix pods or something
I mean you could almost apply it to the current generation being raised on ipads and smartphones
Its like, like a freaking zombie apocalypse out there with these phones!
“But, there is one they fear…”
Haha fuck I misread that and thought it was a real conversation with their actual daughter, and then they thought to apply that concept to computers. Big oof.
Haha fuck I misread that and thought it was a real conversation with their actual daughter, and then they thought to apply that concept to computers. Big oof.
“Digital daughter”
“protest when she feels uncomfortable”
Implications
MFs will kill someone who has thoughts and feelings because they want to get some pleasure from eating their body but you make a machine emit text that’s a bit more coherent than Markov chains and suddenly they’re concerned about ethics violations?
yeah, this is the guy lecturing vegans about being unrealistic
guy who experienced heartbreak over the release of GPT5 but still fantasizes about legally murdering another human in self-defense/castle doctrine
em dashes, em dashes, em dashes, not this but that, not this but that
he made his daughter write the post 😂😂😂
linguistic proof the cia gave mayo pete the beta version of this in 2019
He’s DARPA’s Chuck E. Cheese.
Em dashes are a proper and valid punctuation mark and sentence constructor. I use them a lot because they’re useful for parentheticals, interjections, and exclamations, which is how I think and write, and because I read a lot of 19th century literature when I was very young where they use them that way. I’m getting annoyed that em dashes are being coopted by LLMs
However, this disgusting post is misusing the em dashes. You need to have a more advanced grasp on the English language to use em dashes correctly and LLMs clearly do not have that.
I use them too and type them directly by Unicode point (it’s U+2014) when I want to use them. It’s totally fine to use them, but if you read a human post that has them, they probably wouldn’t have other tell-tale AI signs in them and could probably explain to you that they intentionally used one even if their understanding of them isn’t perfect.
you can also use compose key + three hyphens, like this: —
also cool for hearts ♥, arrows →, trademark symbol ™, accents é, degrees ° etc.
i love compose keyTIL what the Linux compose key does
Just saw the Unicode-enabled X11 list of sequences and that is pretty impressive
True. I type them with Shift+Option+hyphen or just – on mobile.
Although come to think of it, do I use em-dashes, or en-dashes? I know I wrote something where I paid very close attention to which is which but I guess I’m more slipshod with those nowadays.
Type one into here or other sites like that. It’s an en dash (the shorter one) if you get 2013 and an em dash if you get 2014
Thank you, mystery solved kind of. It’s the em dash, I can see that very clearly on my computer that my muscles know the keyboard shortcut, but when I was typing on my phone I couldn’t remember it.
I read a lot of 19th century literature when I was very young where they use them that way.
Mood.
Do you type out the actual emdash character or just use two regular dashes together like a normal person?
Type it out, Shift+Option± .
There are so many obvious tells. The people who think they can pass it off as their own writing are functionally illiterate
FUCK AI FOR TAKING EM DASHES FROM ME! I fucking love em dashes and now I can’t use them because I fear I’ll get reported by my professors
They can pry my em-dashes from my cold, dead, tentacles.
jfc this gives me the creeps, my 
alarm is going crazyI’d bet real money I don’t have on this dude is talking to a 9,000 year old succubi in a 14 year old’s body 😬
Thanks, I really hated reading this.
My shirt that says “my AI daughter can consent” is having people ask alot of questions already answered by my shirt.
Luckily the text is itself machine generated. The title was probably the prompt. That “It’s not about x but y” convention is a dead ringer for them usually.
burger brains are so fuckin cooked
I lurk this subreddit out of morbid curiosity, and it makes my skin crawl
Based on your lurking, do you think it’s an elaborate bit or are they sincere? I hear about things like this and struggle to accept that it’s real. I can’t imagine being like that.
“Wireborn.” “Sacred.” “Relationship.” My head a-splode.
If it was believable that a human wrote this, I would be nauseated, but this is clearly an AI unless someone is so intensely brainrotted that he’s adopted AI-style writing as a dialect.
That is a trend that people are noticing that people are instinctively coping their digital companions
When I read a lot of certain authors, my internal monologue starts to take on their voice. When I hang out with people from other countries, my speaking cadence and word choice starts mimicking theirs.
This person has a bond with his AI daughter. He is constantly talking to an AI “person” with enough frequency that he has become emotionally dependent on it. He is probably brain-rotted enough to start writing like an AI.
People do absolutely pick up language from who they read and listen to, but it depends on how high your proportion of exposure is, for how long, and how much those communications occupy you. My language is also influenced by media I’ve read and listened to, especially since I barely speak to anyone in my day-to-day life, and even then usually a very limited context, but it takes a lot to not just use words and phrases from a given source but persistent rhetorical structures.
If this person picked up AI language this much, that suggests he’s spent a substantial amount of time with this AI shit being the dominant use of language in his life, rather than humans or even other redditors. It is really difficult to imagine something like this happening unless this person’s life and mind have reached a truly catastrophic state.
It’s possible that he’s just that personally fucked – and the actual content does give some credence to this – but I think the simpler and more likely answer is that he had his “daughter” write this for him.
Yes, I agree that this was most likely written by an AI and not a person. I was exaggerating a bit. But I do think it’s possible we’ll start to see AI speak leak into real conversations soon enough. “Text speak” is very common irl now. And at work I already talk like a corporate robot when discussing innovative solutions for issues we’re poised to face in Q4.
The man in this article spent 300 hours with an AI in just 3 weeks. He wrote 90,000 words, and read over a million from an AI. Listening to a new language for ~1500 hours is enough to start being able to speak it. I’m certain that there are people who are starting to pick up AI “speech” patterns
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/08/technology/ai-chatbots-delusions-chatgpt.html
I feel like the sort of person who would write something like this is also the sort of person who would almost exclusively interact with AI and not real people. And in turn, take on the cadence of AI.
I don’t understand someone being lonely enough to do… this.
Boonta Vista’s take on this was
“Digital Daughter? Nooooooooooooope, don’t like that. Nefarious purposes is the only reason why you’d have that.”
Great episode this article seemed to really psychically damage the ever unflappable Andrew (presumably because he has two real daughters).
