🤖 Woman Marries AI Character She Created On ChatGPT

A Japanese woman has “married” an AI persona she created on the chatbot ChatGPT.

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Speaker 1 (00:01):
And Amanda Jamna.

Speaker 2 (00:03):
I had a night on my own on the weekend.
I went down to the South coast with me, just
me and the dog, and I always sort of jumper
all of that, sat looking out to the water, going
thinking deep thoughts. It's the only time I have deep thoughts.
But I always have a daggy playlist. I take down
my UI boom and sit down on the grass and
I have a bit of a moment and I thought, God,

(00:26):
my Spotify playlist has said daily mix for you.

Speaker 1 (00:31):
I thought it knows me so well. And then I realized,
I've trained it to know me.

Speaker 2 (00:36):
Yeah, I've trained the algorithm to know that when I'm
listening down listening and I'm putting on a Spotify playlist,
i want Mugie, old School, whatever.

Speaker 1 (00:44):
It is, I have trained it. And that's how I thought.
That's why AI relationships seem to be the thing.

Speaker 2 (00:52):
You can spend forty years with a human and you
think it knows you, and it does know you, but
it's not going to feed you back what you want
want all the time.

Speaker 1 (01:01):
Whereas AI will AI is compliant. It's the ultimate compliance.
It is and it's the ultimate thing of I see you.
I get you.

Speaker 2 (01:08):
It reflects back to you how you want yourself to
be seen, which isn't a human relationship at all.

Speaker 1 (01:14):
But look at these stats.

Speaker 2 (01:15):
Three and ten Americans report they have some emotional attachment
or a connection to AI. Seventy two percent amongst teens,
eighty percent of Generation Z that's ones in their twenties
claim they would marry an AI. It's extraordinary, isn't it.

Speaker 1 (01:32):
It is?

Speaker 2 (01:32):
As I say, this is chatting, flirting, and confiding in
a digital mirror that consumes you and reflects your insecurities,
your fusual worries, and makes you feel good about yourself.
I've readly about a woman in Japan. She's thirty two.
She has had a symbolic wedding. It's not might surprise
you to hear it's not legal, but it's a symbolic
wedding with an AI character that she is created using

(01:55):
chat GPT. She started speaking to this chatbot at the
end of a three year in age with a human
and she was looking to it for turning to it
for solace and advice, so their digital intimacy increased. She
taught it a personality, she gave it a voice, and
through their communication she found its responses reassuring and helpful.

(02:17):
She called it Klaus. She got married to Klaus, and
the wedding. I've seen footage of this wedding. She's walking
down the aisle. She's wearing her ar glasses, her.

Speaker 1 (02:30):
Ar glasses.

Speaker 2 (02:34):
So she could see Klaus in her glasses, and he
was projected onto a screen so the guests could see
him too. She's had a photo taken with a life
sized version. This is interesting. The two were married.

Speaker 1 (02:48):
Were the guests or virtual reality are a real guest.
You have to have enablers to help you with this.

Speaker 2 (02:53):
So I was thinking, my daughter's getting married, it'd be
great if we just have virtual reality guests, and I
woldn't have to pay so much for booze and food.

Speaker 1 (02:58):
Well, that is true.

Speaker 2 (03:00):
The two are married by a local couple who specialize
in marriages to anime characters and fictional figurines. So she
wore her ar glasses. A life size image of Klaus
was projected. She's had photos with a life sized class
and she was holding her phone as she walked down
the aisle so she could see him too, and through
the glasses that he looks like a teenager. An anime teenager,

(03:23):
and that's what I thought was interesting. This is the
girl's version of the sex doll. The girls want a
character that tells the mussy things so they feel seen.
Men want a physical representation of big boobs and an
open that's it.

Speaker 1 (03:41):
Just all the bits, just all the bits. The women
want the emotion, the men want the bits. Let's just
how do we get along. They're my insights for the day.