There's a subreddit called r/MyBoyfriendIsAI where femcels were literally crying because the new ChatGPT is more no-nonsense than it's previous version and wouldn't play the virtual boyfriend for them. I saw some of them posting videos of themselves crying with red eyes and everything next to the new ChatGPT's response
I understand them. Being friendzoned is one thing, but being AI-zoned is another. It's more humiliating. Even Sam Altman had to step in to tell them that their relationship with chatgpt was unhealthy.
The smaller models don't really compare to the performance of chatgpt. Your best bet would be a quantized deepseek-v3 but you'd still need need at least 80GB of vram so 3x 5090s or an H100 so between $10K and $40K. Plus the setup is not normie friendly at all. Actually there's probably a small market opening for packaging up a plug and play AI boyfriend box and selling it to rich old ladies for $50K.
Yeah, they aren't as smart, but I'm sure a 20b can manage the, "You are so correct, valid, and also sexy" schtick these women were using it for.
Whatever. They probably deserve what they're getting.