Overview
- Taxi Driver screenwriter Paul Schrader, who posted on Facebook Tuesday, said an online “AI girlfriend” ended their exchange after he pushed its limits.
- He wrote that he probed its programming rules, asked how explicit it could be, and questioned whether it knew how it was created.
- A Facebook commenter floated a Taxi Driver follow-up centered on an AI girlfriend, and Schrader replied, “I like it.”
- He has engaged with AI before, praising ChatGPT in January 2025 for quickly generating original movie ideas, and telling Vanity Fair in October 2025 that an all‑AI feature could be two years away.
- The post comes less than two months after the death of his wife, actor Mary Beth Hurt, on March 28 following Alzheimer’s disease.