A lot of people, apparently. After LLMs became capable of producing believably meaningful fiction texts, roleplay was one obvious use case, and a lot of people

A lot of people, apparently. After LLMs became capable of producing believably meaningful fiction texts, roleplay was one obvious use case, and a lot of people have fun with it. (Of course, some are weird and get attached to their own generated fiction.) If we'd ignore all the US-specific craze (e.g. mentally replace "black queer" with something that doesn't trigger people, like, idk, "space unicorn"), this is really just another RP chatbot thing.