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"[Altman] cryptically tweeted the word Her—in an apparent reference to the 2013 film starring Johansson as [the voice of] an AI chatbot who falls in love with Joaquin Phoenix."

River Page, did you watch the movie, Her? It would appear not.

The lonely man played by Phoenix falls in love with the AI app that he uses, not the other way around. That is the point of the movie, the danger of 'human simulation' by a computer program supplanting the role of another human in the relationship and how that can go awry when the human finds that the app is not going to give him what he wants (here, exclusivity).

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