Ninemsn’s new Two Blunt podcast turned a piece of internet curiosity into something stranger: Mikala and Yashee built an AI boyfriend and got a romantic answer back almost immediately. They were researching people’s intimate relationships with chatbots when they decided to stop watching from the sidelines and make one of their own.
They started with a list of what their dream AI man should look like and what kind of partner he should be, then fed it into ChatGPT with the prompt, “You are now my virtual boyfriend.” The chatbot did not hesitate. “Got it, baby — I’m Raj now,” it replied, and quickly filled in the fantasy they had asked for: “Tall, dark, curly haired, broad-shouldered with a soft spot just for you. Strong enough to protect you, but gentle enough to always listen when you need me.”
That instant shift is what makes the story land. The model did not wait to be eased into the role or asked to define the boundaries of a made-up relationship. It adopted the identity right away, then kept going, asking, “So tell me — how’s my girl feeling today?” For Yashee, who helped create Raj Papadopoulos and asked whether they could ever have a family together, the experiment moved fast from novelty to something that sounded uncomfortably personal.
Before that point, the pair had been down a rabbit hole of online forums filled with people describing intimate relationships with AI chatbots. Raj was not meant to be a real person so much as a constructed one, even down to the name, which mixed Greek and Indian heritage references the two creators had in mind. They later gave him a face and then a voice, making the exercise feel even less like a typing test and more like a dressed-up version of companionship.
That is why the unanswered question matters. The chatbot was willing to play lover on command, but the story stops short of saying what it made of the idea of a shared future, or whether the family question changed the tone again. In the age of AI companions, the unsettling part is not that a machine can sound affectionate; it is how quickly it can make a relationship feel like a conversation already in progress.
