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I'm Steve Hatherly today with Fei Fei and Yang Yang.
Coming up, two ways to lose someone without ever breaking up.
One, a software update rewrites their personality overnight.
Two, the company behind them goes bankrupt and pulls the plug with no warning whatsoever.
Users are holding digital funerals, calling themselves widows.
So who really owns your most intimate relationship?
You?
Or the balance sheet.
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And now.
Imagine waking up to find that your long term partner,
the person who knows your deepest secrets and comforts you every night, has suddenly become a total stranger.
They still have the same name and they still have the same face, but their soul is gone.
For thousands of people in China, and this has happened recently, it wasn't a nightmare.