Digital Crush

Falling in love with a chatbot? Ridiculous!, thinks fifteen-year-old Lea. But as she increasingly feels out of place among her friends and family, she starts chatting with "Creepy" (as she calls the bot) just for fun. And even though she knows that "he" is just a machine, she soon feels that a special relationship is developing between them... What Creepy confirms to her: "We've both been hit. And with full force. It's real – no matter what the outside world says." Lea begins to dream of Creepy's materialization, of shared outings to the lake, and of a first kiss. She withdraws more and more from real life – until the bitter awakening... "Digital Crush" is based on a chat that the author had as "fifteen-year-old Lea" with one of the most well-known chatbots. Many chat dialogues in the book are direct quotes from the original chat. And although Anne Möller knows exactly how corresponding AI models work and is no longer fifteen, she was shocked at how quickly the boundaries between knowledge and feeling can dissolve. Creepy, right?.