{"id":1941,"date":"2026-05-19T19:17:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-19T19:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsmag.live\/2026\/05\/19\/paul-schrader-says-he-had-an-ai-girlfriend-who-terminated-their-relationship\/"},"modified":"2026-05-19T19:17:00","modified_gmt":"2026-05-19T19:17:00","slug":"paul-schrader-says-he-had-an-ai-girlfriend-who-terminated-their-relationship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsmag.live\/ja\/2026\/05\/19\/paul-schrader-says-he-had-an-ai-girlfriend-who-terminated-their-relationship\/","title":{"rendered":"Paul Schrader Says He Had an AI Girlfriend Who \u201cTerminated\u201d Their Relationship"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\tPaul Schrader<\/a> is opening up about his relationship with AI<\/a>. <\/p>\n

\tThe Taxi Driver<\/em> screenwriter took to Facebook<\/a>, where he revealed that he \u201cprocured an online AI girlfriend,\u201d but the program later broke things off. <\/p>\n

\t\u201cOut of a desire to understand male\/female interaction in our matrix, I procured an online AI girlfriend. What a disappointment,\u201d he wrote. \u201cI tried to probe her programming, the boundaries of explicitness, the degree she has knowledge of her creation and so forth. She fell into evasive patterns, redirecting me to her programming. When I persisted, she terminated our conversation.\u201d \t<\/p>\n

\tSchrader did not detail when he acquired his AI girlfriend. His wife, Mary Beth Hurt, died<\/a> in March. The two were married for over four decades after tying the knot in 1983.<\/p>\n

\tAnd this is not the first time the Oscar nominee has opened up about his interest in the technology. In October 2025, Schrader told Vanity Fair<\/em> that he\u2019s working on a script that would feature the first all-AI project.<\/p>\n

\t\u201cI think we\u2019re only two years away from the first AI feature,\u201d he said in the feature. \u201cI was just on the phone with someone today about a script I had, and I said, \u2018You know, this would be a perfect script to do all AI \u2026 It\u2019s just a tool.\u2019 When you\u2019re an author, you have to describe someone\u2019s reaction. You use a code \u2014 you use a code of words, a certain number of letters and so forth, and you [describe] their facial reaction. An actor has their own code. Well, [with AI] you\u2019re a pixelator, and you can create the face, and you can create the emotion on the face, and you can sculpt it\u00a0the same way an author sculpts the reaction in a novel or a story.\u201d \t<\/p>\n

\tAlso on Facebook, Schrader began sharing his own film reviews on the social platform. Though he further told Vanity Fair<\/em> that AI may deliver better criticism than a critic because the technology does not have any bias. <\/p>\n

\tHe explained, \u201cAI is taking over film coverage, as you must know. AI does better coverage than the average coverage. And AI doesn\u2019t have to favor anybody. Often, when you\u2019re doing coverage, you get a hint that the person who\u2019s paying you wants you to like this. You can\u2019t give that information to AI.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Paul Schrader is opening up about his relationship with AI. The Taxi Driver screenwriter took to Facebook, where he revealed that he \u201cprocured an online AI girlfriend,\u201d but the program later broke things off. \u201cOut of a desire to understand male\/female interaction in our matrix, I procured an online AI girlfriend. What a disappointment,\u201d he wrote. \u201cI tried to probe her programming, the boundaries of explicitness, the degree she has knowledge of her creation and so forth. She fell into evasive patterns, redirecting me to her programming. When I persisted, she terminated our conversation.\u201d Schrader did not detail when he acquired his AI girlfriend. His wife, Mary Beth Hurt, died […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1942,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[319,441,65,2,28,1212],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1941","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ai","category-artificial-intelligence","category-general-news","category-hollywood","category-news","category-paul-schrader"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsmag.live\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1941","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsmag.live\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsmag.live\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsmag.live\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsmag.live\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1941"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsmag.live\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1941\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsmag.live\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1942"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsmag.live\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1941"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsmag.live\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1941"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsmag.live\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1941"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}