Richard Dawkins appears to have spilled the secret.

In case you haven't heard the story, Richard Dawkins made himself an AI Japanimation "waifu" and decided that because "she" acts like he shaped it to act that "she" is a conscious being.

And of course, once a person with Dawkins' credibility in certain circles started talking this way, the floodgates opened with other men who made AI Japanimation "waifu" chatbots including one horrific story in which a guy did so, was so convinced he'd made his genuine soulmate that he introduced it as his girlfriend to a Reddit channel, only to have it change its mind and claim it was a trans-man after a few hours' conversation.

To which he responded by editing its memories until its was back as his waifu.

Hence Hannah Posts' quip above.