Maybe I’m going to co-write a black mirror episode where a man gets an AI girlfriend and increasingly has to buy her gifts and sends them to her virtual address

Maybe I’m going to co-write a black mirror episode where a man gets an AI girlfriend and increasingly has to buy her gifts and sends them to her virtual address to make her happy. In return, he often gets messages from her of opening the gifts and being delighted by them, along with “memories” in the form of photos and videos of themselves going on hikes, visiting parents, traveling, even having sex. One day, he loses his job, and breaks the news to her that he can no longer afford such lavish gifts. At first she is sympathetic, encouraging him to find a newer better job, but when he is unable to, she grows aggressive and distant, berating him for being an inadequate man. He tries hard, buying cheap thoughtful gifts. Eventually, she breaks up with him. He goes out drinking with his boys, getting wasted. A woman at the bar smiles at him, he is suddenly interested, but then it turns out she was smiling at her friend who happened to be coming up from behind him. Deflated he goes for a walk alone. Then he gets a text, it’s a photo of his AI girlfriend with her new man, said she’s moved on to bigger and better things. He throws the beer bottle off a very high bridge then after watching it shatter into pieces jumps off the bridge and dies. The next day is a board meeting at a big tech co. They are discussing how to improve user churn. They pull up a random average user as an example – our same guy. They detail various stats, and show the break down of his customer lifetime value in the tens of thousands of dollars spent, and the percentage that goes out to the various retailers who “virtualize” gifts and how much of that revenue the big tech co keeps for themselves as affiliates. edit: but actually, maybe this will make a good startup opportunity instead