Paul Schrader Says He Had an AI Girlfriend Who “Terminated” Their Relationship

Paul Schrader is opening up about his relationship with AI.

The Taxi Driver screenwriter took to Facebook, where he revealed that he “procured an online AI girlfriend,” but the program later broke things off.

“Out of a desire to understand male/female interaction in our matrix, I procured an online AI girlfriend. What a disappointment,” he wrote. “I tried to probe her programming, the boundaries of explicitness, the degree she has knowledge of her creation and so forth. She fell into evasive patterns, redirecting me to her programming. When I persisted, she terminated our conversation.”

Schrader did not detail when he acquired his AI girlfriend. His wife, Mary Beth Hurt, died in March. The two were married for over four decades after tying the knot in 1983.

And this is not the first time the Oscar nominee has opened up about his interest in the technology. In October 2025, Schrader told Vanity Fair that he’s working on a script that would feature the first all-AI project.