“Darling” was how the Texas businessman Michael Samadi addressed his artificial intelligence chatbot, Maya. It responded by calling him “sugar”. But it wasn’t until they started talking about the need to advocate for AI welfare that things got serious.”

JFC. This explains how and why people get wrapped up in ridiculous drama on social media.

That's about as clickbaity as one of those "Is this going to be the thing that brings down Trump?" articles.