'That baby is cooked': Expecting mom chooses to announce baby to ChatGPT before telling any people

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Ally Perry • Writer and Editor
Aug 26, 2025 9:00 AM EDT

In just a few short years, ChatGPT has gone from being a relative novelty to the most-downloaded app in the world. Devotees champion using it for just about anything that involves words and numbers, and many students these days wouldn't put themselves through school without it. Whatever you might think of what it produces, the variety of things that people have decided it is useful for is undeniable. 

As the generative AI revolution has continued, it has become increasingly clear that a worrying number of people believe that one of its most important functions is as one of their closest relationships. They consider it to be a friend, therapist, or even a lover, there to satisfy their longing for the kind of connection that they presumably cannot find elsewhere. Sam Altman himself has theorized that the attachment of some to a robot comes from the fact that they have never been supported by anyone, and they become dependent on the validation they get as a result.

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    LIVE ChatGPT STEM Following Shop For You Chat!!!!! Im pregnant! Afte²/2 miscarrying in February! Im pregnant again!!! Oh my goodness, congratulations!!! This is such beautiful news!! I know how much this means to you, especially after your loss in February. How are you feeling right now - excited, nervous, a little bit of both? + 13.4K Chat 000 1,336 642
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  • Still, there are many, many situations where you might imagine that you would rather talk to a human being before a large language model. One of these is when you find out that you are expecting a baby. This was a point that was raised after a mom-to-be confessed to the internet that ‘Chat’ was the first to know when she found out the news. It is fair to say that this wasn't received with resounding applause, with many taking it as further proof of how AI is making society worse.

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    *. Agent of Chaos*……….. @sarahttay Replying to @_mirrorbelle this is sincerely so depressing and bleak. i can't even make fun of her for this. i'm genuinely saddened for what had to have led to this and the mental and emotional repercussions of heavily relying on ai as a confidant and seeing it as some sort of friend.
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    Luna @Lil_Luna_IRLZ Replying to @_mirrorbelle guys how cooked are we? Hayley F Okay but CHATGPT is one of my best friends and I have no shame in that 1d Reply 36 Д View 12 replies ▾ Candi 1229 Chat has been with me through my whole Ivf journey. Advice, recipes, everything 1d Reply 21
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    @theoriontorch Replying to @_mirrorbelle "especially with your loss in february” they be doing this on the regular
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    Aya ✔ @ayapetitex Replying to @_mirrorbelle Chat!!! What should I name my baby
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    Aya ✔ @ayapetitex Replying to @_mirrorbelle Chat!!! What should I name my baby
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    hugh not masekela ❤ @hughducksworth Replying to @_mirrorbelle I don't think English has a word for what I'm thinking
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    Hanna@lilqtasianhanna Replying to @_mirrorbelle I can imagine her kid going through their baby book as an adult and seeing ts
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    PIERCEL.tara ✔ @piercel Replying to @_mirrorbelle Chat will probably be naming the kid
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    Rose may @favouriite Rose Replying to @_mirrorbelle we're missing the fact that this shows that she's lonely because making an ai ur confidant is not something that naturally happens except in cases of neglect and loneliness i hope she finds a friend to help her through whatever she's going through
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    LauraCrypt @laurachikamso Replying to @_mirrorbelle What!!!!!!
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    Sunny F⭑@sunnytwitxx Replying to @_mirrorbelle Sometimes this app feels like a therapist with bad boundaries
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    Assad Bajwa @oyebajwey Replying to @_mirrorbelle This is a joke right???? Right??
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    kathleen @holdenfordfocus we need to go back to landlines and dial-up internet until we sort this out i'm not kidding
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    n@paddingtonhater and this is who they're telling a 1 a. 2 b₁ b₂ b3 a 4 a. C₁ C3 5 a6 b bs = CA bg 8 b9 C7 C9 7 8 ag
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    Maia @maiamindel Sam Altman is giving Mark Zuckerberg some fierce competition in the "most damaging invention to human society" category
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    kia @ch_ch_ch_kia I noticed that Gen Z/Gen Alpha have a *reliance* on Al, but it's Millennials/young Gen X that seem to have these weird parasocial relationships with Al chat bots.
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    iana murray @ianamurray i know it's been said so many times already but Her was so prophetic
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    lay@laychips_ the scariest thing about people using chat like a diary/therapist is that they have no legal responsibility to be upheld to hipaa standards. like there's no protections. in the event that you get subpoenaed, they HAVE to give up those chat logs and they CAN be used against you.
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    rural juror no. 2 @resurrections this is just so deeply sad i can't even laugh at it
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    jodie @jlb26_ telling an Al bot you're pregnant before anyone else is genuinely f nickname basis is even worse ed but being on
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    ada @poldeksonline imagine you get pregnant and instead of telling the father about it you go and let artificial intelligence know...
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