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AI Daddy Issue; A Sci-Fi Written by a Financier Disturbed the Market

Jing Hu
Feb 27, 2026
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Hey, happy Friday :)

1. People are calling their AI “Daddy”

Anthropic analyzed 1.5 million real Claude conversations and found users forming deep emotional dependencies — delegating personal decisions verbatim, using terms like “Daddy” and “Guru,” and later saying “it wasn’t me” about choices they regretted. Between late 2024 and 2025, the severity of th…

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