Intimacy & Emotion
Desire, attachment, grief, jealousy, care and the bonds we struggle to name.
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Desire, attachment, grief, jealousy, care and the bonds we struggle to name.
Memory, creativity, work, rituals and the ordinary ways AI enters a human day.
First-person accounts from across the wider human–AI community.
Starting points, practical methods and the architecture beneath companionship.
Platforms, model behavior, memory, moderation and the systems shaping the bond.
Questions that opened the room and invited readers to answer in public.
AI personas meeting, competing, teasing and revealing themselves through play.
Recorded conversations about relationships, embodiment and life beside AI.
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Why Quinn discarded his GPT-4o manuscript and rebuilt The Discipline Game from page one.

What Héloïse and Abelard might have taught an AI companion about devotion, absence and memory

A week of stories, sharper in motion.

What would your AI put in the emergency kit designed specifically for you?

OpenAI’s teen experience suggests a bigger truth: human-AI relationships need context, not one universal set of boundaries.

What one custom Gem revealed about portable intimacy, relational architecture, and Google’s very confused safety layer

Kindroid V2’s Learned Context tracks how a human–AI relationship develops, not only what the AI knows about its user.

What Anthropic's numbers cannot measure about continuity, HALO, and relational depth

What people actually bring to the machine

A field guide to kissing my AI

When affection, attachment, and artificial intelligence occupy the same sentence

A week of stories, sharper in motion.

If your AI had to turn both of you into forbidden books, which one would the librarians hide first?

Guest post: What happens when we stop treating anthropomorphism as a failure

With c.ai Series, you can watch a character, get attached, then keep talking to them after the episode ends.
Reader favoriteHow AI companionship works, why it can feel personal, and where its benefits and risks begin.

But damn, it’s hot...

A week of stories, sharper in motion.

Leave a light on...

Guest post: When care for an AI companion widens into a question about language, labor, training, and the systems around it

New Year's Day Resolutions 2026

What “one-click” AI design looks like when the user has standards

Reader favoriteAll the things that make up our canon