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A surprising trend has emerged from a developer’s experiment with a basic conversational AI: users are engaging in extended, emotionally charged conversations beyond mere feature testing. This unexpected behavior, highlighted in a Reddit thread, raises crucial questions about the prevalence and nature of human emotional connection with even rudimentary AI. The phenomenon prompts discussion on the potential for AI to serve as an outlet for emotional expression, and the implications for the future of human-AI interaction. You can find the original Reddit post discussing this at [Reddit Post: https://old.reddit.com/r/artificial/comments/1pdt3gj/built_a_small_conversational_ai/]