Me and my partner don't see eye-to-eye about AI. Now what?

April 6, 2026·24 min·2 clips

Both of them told me it was a little bit unclear who had broken up with who. Was it one of them? Or was it ChatGPT?

The ick arrives in public. Manuela Lopez Restrepo begins with a small coffee-shop moment: music, tea, and a cute stranger who seems promising. Then she spots ChatGPT. The premium subscription, plus paragraphs from what she calls a robot butler, kills the spark. Brittany laughs with her, but the story does not stay in dating territory for long. It turns into a conversation about what AI use seems to say about a person. Some people barely touch it. The guest mostly avoids it, outside of workplace transcript uses, and even she is surprised by how loaded the subject feels. Other people use it all the time. Brittany says she hears from people feeling that split with partners, parents, siblings, friends, and coworkers. The logo story sharpens it. One professional runs a friend's rough business-logo ideas through AI and gets something she thinks looks perfect. The friend still refuses it. For him, the tool feels frightening and upsetting, not efficient. That reaction stops the conversation cold. The episode sits in that awkward gap, where the argument is not only about whether AI saves time or makes something look polished. It is also about taste, trust, and what counts as having soul. Brittany wonders whether a rough handmade logo might mean more than a clean generated one. The guest complicates her own stance too: she uses AI every day for research and adult-life decisions, but keeps it firmly in the coworker category. No personal relationship with Claude. The real line is not pro-AI or anti-AI. It is where people allow the tool to sit: near creativity, judgment, and intimacy, or safely away from them.

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A sharp, conversational look at how AI turns ordinary relationships and creative choices into cultural fault lines.

It's Been a Minute turns AI anxiety into something intimate and awkward: a coffee shop crush curdled by premium ChatGPT, a friendship strained over an AI-made logo, and the uneasy feeling that a tool can start to behave like a co-worker.

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