Last night, I was unwinding after a long week at work, watching this comedy show on YouTube called Relationshit Advice by Raunaq Rajani — a bunch of stand-up comics playing the modern version of Agony Aunt. They start off by talking about their respective relationship status, with humor peppered throughout — poking fun at relationships, breakups, and the enigma that is modern dating. They also take relationship questions from emails sent to the host, with some being situations being far more absurdically comical than the others.
The show doesn’t take itself too seriously, but it has its poignant moments. During one of the episodes, a panelist was reflecting on the eclectic ways GenZ approaches their relationship problems.
“No one goes to therapy anymore. They just dump their entire chat history into ChatGPT and say, ‘Tell me what went wrong.’”
It got a laugh from the audience, a lot of them seemingly able to relate to this new age of “computer therapy” — but it also got me thinking. Could you really do that? Could AI actually help unpack years of messages, misunderstandings, and emotional buildup between two people?
It was midnight, but I just couldn’t resist the temptation. I figured, “Screw it, there is no harm in trying.”
So I pulled out my old messages with my ex — years of back-and-forth dating back decades — from the honeymoon phase to the cold, silent months. I gave that to ChatGPT, along with additional…