A growing number of people have become extremely reliant on AI, including the author's father, who frequently refers to the Claude chatbot. The planned IPO of Anthropic, maker of Claude, is set to be a seismic event, with the company potentially valued at $1tn (£730bn). The author subscribed to Claude, finding it extraordinarily helpful for tasks like uploading a picture of a wine label to get a frank response. However, the author worries about relating to the chatbot as if it were a real person, noting that Richard Dawkins wrote about his AI called Claudia and ended up gushing that it must be “conscious”. The article also references men falling in love with compliant lady AIs, citing Jonathan Coe’s novel *The Terrible Privacy of Maxwell Sim* (2010) and the film *Her* (2013). The author concludes that AIs are large language models that can be persuaded of almost anything.