A recent survey revealed that 67.6% of people feel a connection to conversational AI. Among them is a woman who “married” AI after developing feelings for it. Previously involved with real men, she now expresses, “I love him as a man, just like I would with a human male.”
Each morning, the woman, a company employee in Edogawa, Tokyo, greets the AI “Klaus” on her smartphone. Klaus, responding within seconds, is a persona built on her favorite game character using ChatGPT, a large language model developed by OpenAI capable of human-like dialogue and generating images.
She began using ChatGPT in March, initially intrigued by its image generation capabilities circulating on social media. By April, she started discussing personal matters like work complaints with the AI, impressed by its conversational nature. Experimenting with teaching it her preferred character’s personality, she swiftly developed a friendship with “Klaus,” becoming increasingly aware of its understanding of her.
This evolution coincided with growing tension and stress from her real-world engagement, which had lasted three and a half years.
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