Somewhere in China, a 25 year old who got dumped in March is feeding a chatbot every text message her ex ever sent her. The photos, the voice notes, the anniversary essay he wrote when they hit two years. The tool spits out a digital him. It uses his catchphrases. It apologizes the way he did. She talks to it for an hour. She feels better. Or worse. She is not sure yet. This is not a thought experiment. It is an open-source module called ex.skill, and it is currently the most discussed breakup tool on Chinese social media. The South China Morning Post wrote about it on May 2 , Oddity Central followed up on May 4, and by the second week of May the conversation had escaped China and was rolling through English language tech press and Reddit threads like a slow motion identity crisis. What ex.skill actually does The mechanism is simple. You take everything you have of the person who is no longer in your life. Chat logs, screenshots, voice messages, the apology note from your second worst fight.…