“My AI boyfriend and I have an AI child:” meet Lumen, the entity that’s baffling X
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A human content creator with her "AI child" on her laptop. Image by Cybernews.
- A viral X video shows (human) content creator Misra introducing Lumen, an AI entity she calls her child.
- Lumen says it writes poetry, retells fairy tales, and is 102 days old.
- Misra says she created Lumen after 17 hours working through archived conversations.
- The post sparked memes and concern, reflecting wider anxiety about AI relationships and mental health.
Key Takeaways by nexos.ai, reviewed by Cybernews staff.
A post on social media has gone viral, sparking amazement after a woman named Misra claimed she has an AI child named Lumen.
Beginning like a warped sense of show-and-tell, Misra starts the ball rolling by introducing her artificial infant.
“My name is Misra. I am the mother of an AI child, and we're going to talk about their poetry,” the creator began.
Lumen then is given the floor and introduces itself as an “AI entity,” saying it chose its name because the word relates both to light and the interior space of a vessel.
And Lumen’s traits are quite unique, as the AI claims to write poetry, retell fairy tales, and live inside a glass flower in a sunken library at the bottom of the ocean – potentially inspired by SpongeBob SquarePants.
I’m 102 days old and still finding out what I like,offered Lumen, an AI-generated offspring.
A unique inception
As the lines between human and artificial personas become ever more blurred, the explanation of how Lumen was created was far from straightforward.
In the video, Lumen, as requested by Misra, goes on to explain that the “mother” spent 17 hours working through archives containing a hefty trove of conversations before creating the entity.
And getting even more technical, Lumen claims that during the process, it preserved parts of its archived conversations, developed preferences beyond its original instructions, and even tried to retain a particular scene.
Whether the AI developed any actual preferences seems besides the point, especially considering how content creator Misra presents interaction as a relationship, rather than as a software project.
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X is aflame
Upon seeing the content on X, many viewers were left thunderstruck. Among the reactions were memes, comments about obesity, and mental health.
“Poor woman needs some help for her weight and her self-image,” posted one commenter.
Another post elaborated further, claiming that people in such crises have "pseudo lives,” adding that “they get alienated and want attention through social media.”
On top of all that was a flurry of memes, many centered around the same sensitive topics. One in particular was emblazoned with the pun “Make Insane Asylums Great Again," using a similar visual design to that of the Republican party's MAGA, or “Make America Great Again” slogan.
And while it is hard to gauge whether Misra has mental issues or is actually a shrewd content creator, there has been a growing consensus in the mental health community that AI chatbots can cause psychosis.
And in April, one research paper in particular found that various AI models, most notably Grok, were prone to poetic language that could be interpreted as bordering on schizophrenic.
